Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”

— Emily Dickinson

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52. “Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

— Emily Dickinson

53. “I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.”

— Emily Dickinson

54. “How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn’t care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.”

— Emily Dickinson

55. “The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.”

— Emily Dickinson

56. “Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”

— Emily Dickinson

57. “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

58. “November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”

— Emily Dickinson

59. “I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.”

— Emily Dickinson

60. “A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.”

— Emily Dickinson

61. “I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.”

— Emily Dickinson

62. “Nature is a haunted house – but Art – is a house that tries to be haunted.”

— Emily Dickinson

63. “This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.”

— Emily Dickinson

64. “My life closed twice before its close.”

— Emily Dickinson

65. “But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”

— Emily Dickinson

66. “Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity – Unable they that love – to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

68. “I don’t profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”

— Emily Dickinson

69. “Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”

— Emily Dickinson

70. “If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the summer by, With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I’d wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls.”

— Emily Dickinson

71. “Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.”

— Emily Dickinson

72. “Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.”

— Emily Dickinson

73. “Where thou art, that is home.”

— Emily Dickinson

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74. “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”

— Emily Dickinson

75. “Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.”

— Emily Dickinson

76. “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

77. “The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...”

— Emily Dickinson

78. “I imagine therefore I belong and am free.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

80. “Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.”

— Emily Dickinson

81. “Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!”

— Emily Dickinson

82. “One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

84. “Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye...”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

86. “To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.”

— Emily Dickinson

87. “This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go –.”

— Emily Dickinson

88. “Para viajar lejos, no hay mejor nave que un libro.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

90. “Judge tenderly of me.”

— Emily Dickinson

91. “One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.”

— Emily Dickinson

92. “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”

— Emily Dickinson

93. “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind –.”

— Emily Dickinson

94. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

— Emily Dickinson

95. “My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don’t know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.”

— Emily Dickinson

96. “The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.”

— Emily Dickinson

97. “Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

99. “My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!”

— Emily Dickinson

100. “I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.”

— Emily Dickinson