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Emily Dickinson Quotes about Life

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We turn not older with years but newer every day.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Wisdom, Communication

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

Emily Dickinson
Life, Time, Memories
Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Writing, Shining

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Happiness, Positivity
"Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

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

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Sweet
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life

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

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Wise
" 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Success
Emily Dickinson, “We Never Know How High We Are (1176)”

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

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Break
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Life, Wedding
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson
Life, June, Names
Emily Dickinson, Isabelle Arsenault (2008). “My Letter to the World and Other Poems”, p.20, Kids Can Press Ltd

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Said, Draught
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Halloween
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Life, Arguing
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, Harvard University Press

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

Emily Dickinson
Life, Would Be, Shelves
c.1862 Complete Poems, no.640 (first published 1890).

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

Emily Dickinson
Life, Heart, Night
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

Emily Dickinson
Life, Science, Doctors
"Surgeons must be very careful" l. 1 (ca. 1860)

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Art
Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

Emily Dickinson
Life, Girl, Kindness
EMILY DICKINSON (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Heart, Space
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.707, Harvard University Press

If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Giving, Memorial
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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