Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2026 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. “It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy – a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.”

— Emily Dickinson

303. “Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.”

— Emily Dickinson

304. “How odd that girl’s life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I’m wife! stop there!”

— Emily Dickinson

305. “How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door...”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

310. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

312. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

314. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

316. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

318. “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

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

330. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

333. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

338. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

341. “My business is circumference.”

— Emily Dickinson

342. “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

343. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

345. “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

346. “I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

349. “To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson