Emily Dickinson Quotes

That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality

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

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.

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

I must go in, the fog is rising.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell.

If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth, — the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

A wounded dear leaps the highest

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

The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.

I tasted life.

How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world, — you must have noticed them in the street, — how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?