Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The Pleading of the Summer – That other Prank – of Snow – That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels – know.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

303. “Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.”

— Emily Dickinson

304. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

307. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

311. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

313. “Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.”

— Emily Dickinson

314. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

318. “Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

323. “My business is circumference.”

— Emily Dickinson

324. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

327. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

331. “A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

337. “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

338. “I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away –.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

340. “When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.”

— Emily Dickinson

341. “Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?”

— Emily Dickinson

342. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

344. “Remorse is memory awake.”

— Emily Dickinson

345. “I’ve got a Tomahawk in my side but that don’t hurt me much.”

— Emily Dickinson

346. “It is finished, is never said of us.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

348. “When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.”

— Emily Dickinson

349. “I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson