Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Quotes

• I dwell in possibility...

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

• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

• There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

• 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
  into his Nest again,
  I shall not live in Vain.

• Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.

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

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

• One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
  One need not be a house;
  The brain has corridors surpassing
  Material place.

• Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

• I am nobody, who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then that's a pair of us!

• My life closed twice before its' close-
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

• Anger as soon as fed is dead-
  'Tis starving makes it fat.

• Hope is a thing with feathers
  That perches in the soul,
  And sings the tune without words
  And never stops at all.

• The mere sense of living is joy enough.

• Hope is the thing with feathers
  That perches in the soul.
  And sings the tune
  Without the words,
  and never stops at all.

• I dwell in possiblities.

• Becuase I could not stop for Death
  He kindly stopped for me
  The carriage held but just ourselves
  And Immortality

• Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.