Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.”

— Emily Dickinson

52. “This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— 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. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

61. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

64. “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

65. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

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

— Emily Dickinson

72. “Where thou art, that is home.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

74. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

85. “Judge tenderly of me.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

88. “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

89. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

91. “The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”

— Emily Dickinson

92. “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

93. “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

94. “That I shall love always, I argue thee that love is life, and life hath immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

95. “Hope is a strange invention – A Patent of the Heart – In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.”

— Emily Dickinson

96. “The hearts that never lean must fall.”

— Emily Dickinson

97. “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

98. “It is strange that the most intangible thing is the most adhesive.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

100. “The Truth never flaunted a sign.”

— Emily Dickinson