Emily Dickinson

11 quotes

Lived: 1830 – 1886
Era: 19th century
Place: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

American poet who lived most of her life in Amherst; her compact lyrics on hope, nature, and the soul reshaped modern poetry.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
— Emily DickinsonHope
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
— Emily DickinsonGratitude
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
— Emily DickinsonHope
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; yet know I how the heather looks, and what a wave must be.
— Emily DickinsonHope
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies.
— Emily DickinsonCourage
If I can stop one heart from breaking, 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 DickinsonGratitude
The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door.
— Emily DickinsonSpiritual
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.
— Emily DickinsonHope
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,— One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.
— Emily DickinsonGratitude
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
— Emily DickinsonGratitude
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses, past the headlands, Into deep eternity!
— Emily DickinsonSpiritual