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Emily Dickinson Quotes about Writing

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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.

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Emily Dickinson

Nature, Adversity, Writing

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Inspirational, Women, Writing

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

Emily Dickinson

Writing, Heart, And Love

Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.77, Harvard University Press

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

Emily Dickinson

Writing, Enthusiasm, Said

?1872 Complete Poems, no.1212 (first published 1894).

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Emily Dickinson

Book, Reading, Writing

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

Emily Dickinson

Taken, Writing, Poetry

Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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