Emily Dickinson
28 quotations
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
The fog is rising.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Where thou art, that is home.
Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
The Brain is wider than the sky-.
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
I dwell in Possibility.
To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.