Facts about Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between December 10, 1830 and May 15, 1886.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 45 quotes who is written / told by Emily, under the main topics: Beauty, Life, Nature.
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Famous quotes by Emily Dickinson (45)
"My friends are my estate"
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet"
"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door"
"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles"
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought"
"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name"
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality"
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all"
"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"
"Fortune befriends the bold"
"Forever is composed of nows"
"For love is immortality"
"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture"
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough"
"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate"
"Dying is a wild night and a new road"
"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell"
"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent"
"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"
"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality"
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs"
"A wounded deer leaps the highest"
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day"
"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon"
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality"
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it"
"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"
"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse"
"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"
"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry"
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience"
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn"
"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned"
"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath"
"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil"
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry"
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry"
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"
"I'm nobody, who are you?"
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven"
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"
"Beauty is not caused. It is"
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
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