Emily Dickinson Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

• We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

• Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

• Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Writing, Shining

• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

• That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

• I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Arguing

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, Harvard University Press

• Surgeons must be very careful
  When they take the knife!
  Underneath their fine incisions
  Stirs the Culprit-Life!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Science, Doctors

  "Surgeons must be very careful" l. 1 (ca. 1860)

• I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, June, Names

  Emily Dickinson, Isabelle Arsenault (2008). “My Letter to the World and Other Poems”, p.20, Kids Can Press Ltd

• We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Emily Dickinson, “We Never Know How High We Are (1176)”

• Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

• Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Break

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Would Be, Shelves

  c.1862 Complete Poems, no.640 (first published 1890).

• I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Said, Draught

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

• To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Omnipotence, Alive

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.381, Harvard University Press

• How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Girl, Kindness

  EMILY DICKINSON (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The Life we have is very great.
  The Life that we shall see
  Surpasses it, we know, because
  It is Infinity,
  But when all Space has been beheld
  And all Dominion shown
  The smallest Human Heart's extent
  Reduces it to none.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Space

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.707, Harvard University Press

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