Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.Collection: Hope
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.Collection: Truth
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.Collection: Pet
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!Collection: Faith
Fortune befriends the bold.Collection: Success
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.Collection: Sympathy
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.Collection: Poetry
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.Collection: God
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.Collection: Age
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.Collection: Death
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.Collection: Famous
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Collection: Experience
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.Collection: Age
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.Collection: Famous
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.Collection: Famous
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.Collection: Death
I dwell in possibility.Collection: Inspirational
Forever is composed of nows.Collection: Time
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.Collection: Morning
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Collection: Time
Where thou art, that is home.Collection: Home
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.Collection: Alone
Beauty is not caused. It is.Collection: Beauty
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.Collection: Life
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!Collection: Nature
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.Collection: Smile
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.Collection: Time
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.Collection: Hope
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.Collection: Truth
My friends are my estate.Collection: Friendship
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.Collection: Fear
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.Collection: Success
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.Collection: Nature
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.Collection: Poetry
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.Collection: Poetry
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.Collection: Great
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.Collection: Life
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.Collection: Smile
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.Collection: Romantic
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.Collection: Life
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
The brain is wider than the sky.
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.