There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Reading, Literature, Books
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Poetry, Art, Poets
Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Prayer
The Brain is wider than the sky-.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: The Mind, Mind
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Hope
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 Dickinson
Topics: Imagination
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Poetry, Books
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Grief
I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Birds
The past is not a package one can lay away.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Past
Much Madness is divinest Sense—to a discerning Eye—much Sense—the starkest Madness—
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Madness, Defects
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Dogs
Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Dying, Death
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Experience
To wait an Hour-is long-
If Love be just beyond-
To wait Eternity-is short-
If Love reward the end
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Romance
Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Faith
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Failure, Bravery, Boldness
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Blessings, Happiness
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
Topics: Heaven
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Words
Where thou art, that is home.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Home
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid—as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Thought
I like a look of Agony, because I know it’s true—men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe—
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Suffering
To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: The Present, Living, Present, Life, Time
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Secrets
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -True Poems flee.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Summer
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Fame, One liners
Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Reality
Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see unto the scene that we do not.
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Faith
A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?
—Emily Dickinson
Topics: Letters
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Edgar Allan Poe American Poet
- John Greenleaf Whittier American Poet, Abolitionist
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich American Writer
- Josiah Gilbert Holland American Editor, Novelist
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet
- Marge Piercy American Poet
- Celia Thaxter American Poet
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson American Reformer, Editor
- Anne Bradstreet American Poet
- Gertrude Stein American Writer
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