Emily Dickinson

Sort by date

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

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

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

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

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I dwell in possibility.

Fortune befriends the bold.

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

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.

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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