Emily Dickinson Quotes

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Emily Dickinson

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 10, 1830

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.

Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Emily Dickinson

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.

Emily Dickinson

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.

Emily Dickinson

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Emily Dickinson

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.

Emily Dickinson