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Emily Dickinson Quotes | Quotes said by Emily Dickinson

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #1

    Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

    Much Madness is divinest Sense —
    To a discerning Eye —
    Much Sense — the starkest Madness —
    'Tis the Majority
    In this, as All, prevail —
    Assent — and you are sane —
    Demur — you're straightway dangerous —
    And handled with a Chain —

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #2

    A charm invests a face
    Imperfectly beheld,—
    The lady dare not lift her veil
    For fear it be dispelled.

    But peers beyond her mesh,
    And wishes, and denies,—
    Lest interview annul a want
    That image satisfies.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #3

    A great hope fell
    You heard no noise
    The ruin was within.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #4

    A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #5

    A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
    To meet an antique book
    In just the dress his century wore;
    A privilege, I think,

    His venerable hand to take,
    And warming in our own,
    A passage back, or two, to make
    To times when he was young.

    His quaint opinions to inspect,
    His knowledge to unfold
    On what concerns our mutual mind,
    The literature of old...

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #6

    A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is
    To meet an antique book,
    In just the dress his century wore;
    A privilege, I think.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #7

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

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #8

    A wounded dear leaps the highest

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #9

    After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
    The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
    The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
    And Yesterday, or Centuries before?

    The Feet, mechanical, go round –
    Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
    A Wooden way
    Regardless grown,
    A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

    This is the Hour of Lead –
    Remembered, if outlived,
    As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
    First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #10

    And I, could I stand by
    And see you freeze,
    Without my right of frost,
    Death's privilege?

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #11

    Anger as soon as fed is dead-
    'Tis starving makes it fat.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #12

    Beauty is not caused. It is.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #13

    Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #14

    Because I could not stop for Death,
    He kindly stopped for me;
    The carriage held but just ourselves
    And Immortality.

    We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
    And I had put away
    My labour, and my leisure too,
    For his civility.

    We passed the school where children played,
    Their lessons scarcely done;
    We passed the fields of gazing grain,
    We passed the setting sun.

    We paused before a house that seemed
    A swelling of the ground;
    The roof was scarcely visible,
    The cornice but a mound.

    Since then 'tis centuries; but each
    Feels shorter than the day
    I first surmised the horses' heads
    Were toward eternity.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #15

    Bless God, he went as soldiers,
    His musket on his breast—
    Grant God, he charge the bravest
    Of all the martial blest!

    Please God, might I behold him
    In epauletted white—
    I should not fear the foe then—
    I should not fear the fight!

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #16

    But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #17

    Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #18

    Come le donne le foglie si scambiano
    confidenze acute.
    A volte sono cenni, a volte
    illazioni portentose.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #19

    Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #20

    Dich hab ich nicht erreicht-
    Doch nähert Tag für Tag
    Sich dir mein Fuß
    Drei Flüsse noch und ein Berg
    Ich überqueren muss.
    Noch Eine Wüste, noch ein Meer,
    Die Reise aber zähl ich nicht,
    Wenn ich dann vor Dir steh.

    Wir schreiten leicht, wie Schnee wir stehen,
    die Wasser murmeln leis.
    Flüsse, Wüsten, Berg und Meer
    sind von uns durchlaufen.
    Doch Tod entreißt mir meinen Preis,
    Dich schauend, er gewinnt.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #21

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

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #22

    Each that we lose takes part of us;
    A crescent still abides,
    Which like the moon, some turbid night,
    Is summoned by the tides.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #23

    Faith is a fine invention
    When gentlemen can see,
    But microscopes are prudent
    In an emergency.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #24

    Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #25

    Faith—is the Pierless Bridge
    Supporting what We see
    Unto the Scene that We do not—
    Too slender for the eye
    It bears the Soul as bold
    As it were rocked in Steel
    With Arms of Steel at either side—
    It joins—behind the Veil
    To what, could We presume
    The Bridge would cease to be
    To Our far, vacillating Feet
    A first Necessity.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #26

    Fame is a bee.
    It has a song -
    It has a sting -
    Ah, too, it has a wing.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #27

    Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #28

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

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #29

    Forever is composed of nows.

  • Emily Dickinson Quote #30

    God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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