Emily Dickinson Quotes.
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
I’m nobody, who are you?
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
