Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

- Emily Dickinson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

- Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

- Emily Dickinson

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

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

- Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

- Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate.

- Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

- Emily Dickinson

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Emily Dickinson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

- Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility.

- Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.

- Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

- Emily Dickinson