Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around.”

— Emily Dickinson

352. “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

353. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

356. “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

357. “Remorse is memory awake.”

— Emily Dickinson

358. “SUMMER SHOWER. A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

360. “Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, “Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me”?”

— Emily Dickinson

361. “Pain has an element of blank.”

— Emily Dickinson

362. “Con finezas tan nimias como libros o flores se plantan semillas de sonrisas que van a florecer entre las sombras.”

— Emily Dickinson

363. “Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.”

— Emily Dickinson

364. “God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.”

— Emily Dickinson

365. “This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

368. “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

369. “I tell her we all shall fly so soon, not to let it grieve her, and what indeed is Earth but a Nest, from whose rim we are all falling?”

— Emily Dickinson

370. “A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.”

— Emily Dickinson

371. “Some Arrows slay but whom they strike – But this slew all but him – Who so appareled his Escape – Too trackless for a Tomb.”

— Emily Dickinson

372. “You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.”

— Emily Dickinson

373. “Mirth is the Mail of Anguish –.”

— Emily Dickinson

374. “A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care – For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.”

— Emily Dickinson

375. “I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.”

— Emily Dickinson

376. “Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.”

— Emily Dickinson

377. “Heavenly Father – take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband – Though to trust us seem to us More respectful – We are Dust – We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.”

— Emily Dickinson

378. “Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

— Emily Dickinson

379. “Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.”

— Emily Dickinson

380. “When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he...”

— Emily Dickinson

381. “Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.”

— Emily Dickinson

382. “I cannot help esteem The ‘Bird within the Hand’ Superior to the one The ‘Bush’ may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again.”

— Emily Dickinson

383. “He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.”

— Emily Dickinson

384. “I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.”

— Emily Dickinson

385. “Let us strive together to part with time more reluctantly, to watch the pinions of the fleeting moment until they are dim in the distance, and the new-coming moment claims our attention.”

— Emily Dickinson

386. “Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.”

— Emily Dickinson

387. “A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, – The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, – Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.”

— Emily Dickinson

388. “Our lives are Swiss, so still- so cool.”

— Emily Dickinson

389. “So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.”

— Emily Dickinson

390. “Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock – .”

— Emily Dickinson

391. “But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.”

— Emily Dickinson

392. “We all have moments with the dust, but the dew is given.”

— Emily Dickinson

393. “Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won’t help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.”

— Emily Dickinson

394. “They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”

— Emily Dickinson

395. “The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.”

— Emily Dickinson

396. “At least to pray is left – is left Oh Jesus – in the Air – I know not which thy chamber is – I’m knocking everywhere.”

— Emily Dickinson

397. “You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter – I didn’t mean to make you wicked – but I was – and am – and shall be – and I was with you so much that I couldn’t help contaminate.”

— Emily Dickinson

398. “Expectation is contentment – Gain satiety.”

— Emily Dickinson

399. “If I wasn’t a perfect woman, I’d bust you in the nose.”

— Emily Dickinson

400. “Proud of my broken heart since thou didst Break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee.”

— Emily Dickinson