Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Your absence insanes me so – I do not feel so peaceful, when you are gone from me.”

— Emily Dickinson

302. “To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -.”

— Emily Dickinson

303. “I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior – for Doors.”

— Emily Dickinson

304. “Looking at Death, is Dying –...”

— Emily Dickinson

305. “A Bayonet’s contrition is nothing to the dead.”

— Emily Dickinson

306. “Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again.”

— Emily Dickinson

307. “You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight – though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.”

— Emily Dickinson

308. “Oh my darling one, how long you wander from me, how weary I grow of waiting and looking, and calling for you; sometimes I shut my eyes, and shut my heart towards you, and try hard to forget you because you grieve me so, but you’ll never go away, oh you never will.”

— Emily Dickinson

309. “God, keep me from what they call ‘households,’”

— Emily Dickinson

310. “They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their “Father.””

— Emily Dickinson

311. “I cling to nowhere until I fall – the crash of Nothing...”

— Emily Dickinson

312. “I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.”

— Emily Dickinson

313. “To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!”

— Emily Dickinson

314. “September’s Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets – Crows – and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming – An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.”

— Emily Dickinson

315. “The only secret people keep is immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

316. “I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”

— Emily Dickinson

317. “The Pleading of the Summer – That other Prank – of Snow – That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels – know.”

— Emily Dickinson

318. “Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.”

— Emily Dickinson

319. “MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, – Say, sea, Take me!”

— Emily Dickinson

320. “THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, – Her visitor no more.”

— Emily Dickinson

321. “Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being’s road, Eternity by term.”

— Emily Dickinson

322. “When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.”

— Emily Dickinson

323. “The past is not a package one can lay away.”

— Emily Dickinson

324. “I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me.”

— Emily Dickinson

325. “How lucious lies the pea within the pod.”

— Emily Dickinson

326. “Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.”

— Emily Dickinson

327. “We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.”

— Emily Dickinson

328. “Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!”

— Emily Dickinson

329. “My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word.”

— Emily Dickinson

330. “For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.”

— Emily Dickinson

331. “This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing.”

— Emily Dickinson

332. “Spring’s first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.”

— Emily Dickinson

333. “I would have drowned twice to save you sinking, dear.”

— Emily Dickinson

334. “Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.”

— Emily Dickinson

335. “Could you tell me how to grow – or is it unconveyed – like Melody – or Witchcraft?”

— Emily Dickinson

336. “The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs; A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!”

— Emily Dickinson

337. “My business is circumference.”

— Emily Dickinson

338. “Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb – or Dome of Worm – or Porch of Gnome – or some Elf’s Catacomb?”

— Emily Dickinson

339. “Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved – the site of it by architect could not again be proved.”

— Emily Dickinson

340. “A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.”

— Emily Dickinson

341. “The power to console is not within corporeal reach – though its attempt is precious.”

— Emily Dickinson

342. “Belshazzar had a letter, – He never had but one; Belshazzar’s correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation’s wall.”

— Emily Dickinson

343. “When the best is gone, I know that other things are not of consequence. The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care.”

— Emily Dickinson

344. “The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.”

— Emily Dickinson

345. “To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.”

— Emily Dickinson

346. “We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.”

— Emily Dickinson

347. “The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.”

— Emily Dickinson

348. “The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.”

— Emily Dickinson

349. “I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You’ll know it by the rows of stars around it’s forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”

— Emily Dickinson

350. “The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.”

— Emily Dickinson