Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Quotes

• My friends are my estate.

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

• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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

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

• A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

• Beauty is not caused. It is.

• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

• Forever is composed of nows.

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

• How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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

• Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

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

• Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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

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