Emily Elizabeth Dickinson quotes Born: 12/10/1830 Died: 05/15/1886 Country: usa

• Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir. (Emily Dickinson) [willpower/men]
• Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust. (Emily Dickinson) [death/dialogue/spirit/dust]
• Dying is a wild night and a new road. (Emily Dickinson) [wild/night]
• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. (Emily Dickinson) [death/immortality]
• Let us go in; the fog is rising. (Emily Dickinson)
• Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved. (Emily Dickinson) [mind/mind]
• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. (Emily Dickinson) [take/poetry]
• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. (Emily Dickinson) [words/spirit/more/dust]
• The fog is rising. (Emily Dickinson)
• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. (Emily Dickinson) [pain/feeling/nerves]
• Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. (Emily Dickinson) [parting]
• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. (Emily Dickinson)
• Where thou art, that is home. (Emily Dickinson) [art/housing]
• Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- (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) [thing/words]
• I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. (Emily Dickinson) [love/life/life/immortality]
• Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned. (Emily Dickinson) [luck/chance/fortune/smile]
• The Brain is wider than the sky-. (Emily Dickinson) [brain/sky]
• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. (Emily Dickinson) [top/poetry]
• I dwell in Possibility. (Emily Dickinson)
• To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else. (Emily Dickinson) [time]
• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. (Emily Dickinson) [poetry/personality/personality/personality]
• Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem. (Emily Dickinson) [nature]
• Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. (Emily Dickinson) [willpower]
• His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part. (Emily Dickinson) [mind/start]
• Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency (Emily Dickinson) [faith/prudent]
• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. (Emily Dickinson) [truth]
• Tell the truth, but tell it slant. (Emily Dickinson) [truth]
• To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. (Emily Dickinson) [fight]
• Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. (Emily Dickinson)
• Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life! (Emily Dickinson) [take/life]

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