Top 15 Emily Dickinson Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

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

Forever is composed of nows.

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

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us — don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

I dwell in possibility…

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

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

Bring me the sunset in a cup.