Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Emily Dickinson quotes, Emily Dickinson sayings, and Emily Dickinson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Till the first friend dies, we think ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as unknown.Emily Dickinson
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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.Emily Dickinson
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblemsEmily Dickinson
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I stepped from plank to plank so slow and cautiously the stars about my head I felt, about my feet the sea. I knew not but the next would be my final inch - this gave me that precarious gait some call experience.Emily Dickinson
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Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.Emily Dickinson
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If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your NerveEmily Dickinson
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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
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That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love; It is enough, the freight should be proportioned to the groove.Emily Dickinson
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Dying is a wild night and a new road. Emily Dickinson
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For sighing, and gentle whispering, and unity made of twain. All things do go a courting, in earth, or sea, or air.Emily Dickinson
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Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!Emily Dickinson
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes / The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs / The stiff Heart questions, was it He, that bore / And Yesterday, or Centuries before?Emily Dickinson
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Who has not found the heaven below, will fail of it above. God’s residence is next to mine, his furniture is love.Emily Dickinson
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Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat unto the nearest town?Emily Dickinson
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Bloom upon the Mountain—stated / Blameless of a Name / Efflorescence of a Sunset / Reproduced—the same.Emily Dickinson
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When Roses cease to bloom, Sir,
And Violets are done / When Bumblebees in solemn flight / Have passed beyond the Sun / The hand that paused to gather / Upon this Summer's day
Will idle lie—in Auburn / Then take my flowers—pray!Emily Dickinson
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.Emily Dickinson
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Find ecstasy in life; the more sense of living is joy enough.Emily Dickinson
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Sunset at Night—is natural / But Sunset on the Dawn / Reverses Nature—Master / So Midnight's—due—at Noon.Emily Dickinson
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A door just opened on a street-- / I, lost, was passing by-- / An instant's width of warmth disclosed / And wealth, and company.Emily Dickinson
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It might have been the lighthouse spark / Some sailor, rowing in the dark, / Had importuned to see!Emily Dickinson
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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 Dickinson
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November always seems to me the Norway of the year.Emily Dickinson
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Nature rarer uses yellow / Than another hue; / Saves she all of that for sunsets,-- / Prodigal of blue.Emily Dickinson
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Nature the gentlest mother is, / Impatient of no child, / The feeblest of the waywardest. / Her admonition mild.Emily Dickinson
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.Emily Dickinson
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That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.Emily Dickinson
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Dreams are the subtle dower that make us rich an hour. Then fling us poor out of the purple door. Into the precinct raw possessed before.Emily Dickinson
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.Emily Dickinson
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, / And Mourners to and fro / Kept treading — treading — till it seemed / That Sense was breaking through —Emily Dickinson