Emily Dickinson Quotes

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"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"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."

"Where thou art, that is home."

"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it staying at Home With a Bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard for a Dome."

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

"To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!"

"For Love is Immortality."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!"

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?"

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."