Emily Dickinson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Fire, Reading Poetry

  Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

• There is no frigate like a book

  Emily Dickinson

  Book

  "There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can 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. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Taken, Fire

  Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

• To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Ships

• The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Reading, Writing

• A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “Poems: Series I - III, Complete”, p.19, The Floating Press

• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Reading, Land

  "There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

• But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Heart, Pulse

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.756, Harvard University Press

• To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Nature, Lying

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Thinking, Dresses

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

• Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Mushrooms, Today

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.525, Harvard University Press

• By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kindness, Book, Dark

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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