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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

~ Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.

~ Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

Dwell in possibility.

~ Emily Dickinson

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

~ Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

~ Emily Dickinson

For love is immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

~ Emily Dickinson

Fortune befriends the bold.

~ 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

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

~ Emily Dickinson

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody, who are you?

~ Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

~ Emily Dickinson

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

~ Emily Dickinson

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

~ Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

~ Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

~ Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

~ Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ 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

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.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

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.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson

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

~ Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

~ Emily Dickinson

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