Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born was into a prominent family on the 10th of December, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Emily Dickinson was an American poet who has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Emily Dickinson lived much of her life in isolation. She was a prolific writer and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. Her only publications during her lifetime were 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems, and one letter.
After her death on May 15, 1886, her younger sister Lavinia Dickinson discovered her cache of poems and the breadth of Emily Dickinson’s work became public.
In this article, we have compiled a collection of famous Emily Dickinson quotes and sayings.
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80 Emily Dickinson Quotes About Life, Immortality & Love
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.― Emily Dickinson Quote
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.― Emily Dickinson Quote
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 Quote
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.― Emily Dickinson Quote
We turn not older with years but newer every day.― Emily Dickinson Quote
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee…― Emily Dickinson Quote
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.― Emily Dickinson Quote
But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.― Emily Dickinson Quote
There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Dying is a wild night and a new road.― Emily Dickinson Quote
They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.― Emily Dickinson Quote
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Your brain is wider than the sky― Emily Dickinson Quote
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.― Emily Dickinson Quote
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.― Emily Dickinson Quote
To shut your eyes is to travel.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.― Emily Dickinson Quote
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word― Emily Dickinson Quote
To be alive──is Power.― Emily Dickinson Quote
The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.― Emily Dickinson Quote
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 Quote
Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I must go in, the fog is rising.― Emily Dickinson Quote
How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,–you must have noticed them in the street,–how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?― Emily Dickinson Quote
An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.― Emily Dickinson Quote
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 Quote
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.― Emily Dickinson Quote
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.― Emily Dickinson Quote
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to… to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.― Emily Dickinson Quote
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.― Emily Dickinson Quote
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.― Emily Dickinson Quote
This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me― Emily Dickinson Quote
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Forever is composed of nows.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Bring me the sunset in a cup.― Emily Dickinson Quote
A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I don’t profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Till I loved I never lived.― Emily Dickinson Quote
A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.― Emily Dickinson Quote
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Anger as soon as fed is dead- ‘Tis starving makes it fat.― Emily Dickinson Quote
The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.― Emily Dickinson Quote
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.― Emily Dickinson Quote
In this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf― Emily Dickinson Quote
Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?― Emily Dickinson Quote
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I can wade Grief — Whole Pools of it — I’m used to that — But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet — And I tip — drunken — Let no Pebble — smile — ‘Twas the New Liquor — That was all!― Emily Dickinson Quote
My friends are my estate.― Emily Dickinson Quote
My love for those I love — not many — not very many, but don’t I love them so?― Emily Dickinson Quote
Judge tenderly of me.― Emily Dickinson Quote
A wounded dear leaps the highest― Emily Dickinson Quote
That I shall love always, I argue thee that love is life, and life hath immortality― Emily Dickinson Quote
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.― Emily Dickinson Quote
I felt it shelter to speak to you.― Emily Dickinson Quote
The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care― Emily Dickinson Quote
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul–BOOKS.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.― Emily Dickinson Quote
Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane― Emily Dickinson Quote
I dwell in possibility…― Emily Dickinson Quote