Emily Dickinson Quotes

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Emily Dickinson

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 10, 1830

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson

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.

Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson

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.

Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Emily Dickinson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson