Dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson was a renowned American poet. Known for her reclusive nature, she wrote many short and poignant poems that are still celebrated today.
Poet | American
Born: 1830-12-10 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Died: May 15, 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
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
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson