Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.”

— Emily Dickinson

202. “Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play – In accidental power – The blonde Assassin passes on – The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.”

— Emily Dickinson

203. “You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E’en through the darkest night!”

— Emily Dickinson

204. “The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.”

— Emily Dickinson

205. “Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.”

— Emily Dickinson

206. “They say that “Time assuages” – Time never did assuage – An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age – Time is a Test of Trouble – But not a Remedy – If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady.”

— Emily Dickinson

207. “I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.”

— Emily Dickinson

208. “We grow accustomed to the dark when light is put away –.”

— Emily Dickinson

209. “Pain – has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun – or if there were a time when it was not – It has no Future – but itself – Its Infinite contain Its Past – enlightened to perceive New Periods – of Pain.”

— Emily Dickinson

210. “I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.”

— Emily Dickinson

211. “Faith slips – and laughs, and rallies.”

— Emily Dickinson

212. “Fame is a bee It has a song – It has a sting – Ah, too, it has a wing.”

— Emily Dickinson

213. “His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.”

— Emily Dickinson

214. “It is easy to work when the soul is at play.”

— Emily Dickinson

215. “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – In Corners – till a Day The Owner passed – identified – And carried Me away -.”

— Emily Dickinson

216. “Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”

— Emily Dickinson

217. “One note from one bird is better than a million words...”

— Emily Dickinson

218. “Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?”

— Emily Dickinson

219. “The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.”

— Emily Dickinson

220. “So instead of getting to Heaven, at last – I’m going, all along.”

— Emily Dickinson

221. “My Country is Truth.”

— Emily Dickinson

222. “Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.”

— Emily Dickinson

223. “Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”

— Emily Dickinson

224. “Non esiste un vascello veloce come un libro per portarci in terre lontane.”

— Emily Dickinson

225. “Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.”

— Emily Dickinson

226. “Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.”

— Emily Dickinson

227. “There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.”

— Emily Dickinson

228. “Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight – Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night.”

— Emily Dickinson

229. “Endow the Living – with the Tears – You squander on the Dead.”

— Emily Dickinson

230. “I hope you’re very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great – there are temptations there which at home you are free from – beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

232. “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun.”

— Emily Dickinson

233. “Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face; Nor for any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart: For those may fail or turn to ill, So thou and I shall sever. Keep therefore a true woman’s eye, And love me still, but know not why; So hast thou the same reason still To doat upon me ever.”

— Emily Dickinson

234. “There is no frigate like a book.”

— Emily Dickinson

235. “The days will have more hours while you are gone away.”

— Emily Dickinson

236. “IX. The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

— Emily Dickinson

237. “Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.”

— Emily Dickinson

238. “As there are apartments in our own minds that we never enter without apology we should respect the seals of others.”

— Emily Dickinson

239. “How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!”

— Emily Dickinson

240. “The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.”

— Emily Dickinson

241. “The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.”

— Emily Dickinson

242. “Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.”

— Emily Dickinson

243. “Memory is a strange Bell – Jubilee, and Knell.”

— Emily Dickinson

244. “A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.”

— Emily Dickinson

245. “A power of Butterfly must be – The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -.”

— Emily Dickinson

246. “There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.”

— Emily Dickinson

247. “How vain it seems to write, when one knows how to feel – how much more near and dear to sit beside you, talk with you, hear the tones of your voice... Give me strength, Susie, write me of hope and love, and of hearts that endure...”

— Emily Dickinson

248. “Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.”

— Emily Dickinson

249. “It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.”

— Emily Dickinson

250. “To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.”

— Emily Dickinson