Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

US poet (1830 - 1886)

Emily Dickinson popular quotes

1. They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
2. They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
3. Hope is a thing with feathers
   That perches in the soul,
   And sings the tune without words
   And never stops at all.
4. We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
5. The mere sense of living is joy enough.
6. Hope is the thing with feathers
   That perches in the soul.
   And sings the tune
   Without the words,
   and never stops at all.
7. I dwell in possiblities.
8. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
9. Becuase I could not stop for Death
   He kindly stopped for me
   The carriage held but just ourselves
   And Immortality
10. I dwell in possibility...
11. My friends are my estate.
12. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
13. I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
14. If I can stop one Heart from breaking
    I shall not live in vain
    If I can ease one Life the Aching,
    or cool one Pain,
    Or help one fainting Robin
    into his Nest again,
    I shall not live in Vain.
15. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
16. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
17. One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
    One need not be a house;
    The brain has corridors surpassing
    Material place.
18. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.