Quotes from Emily Dickinson

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

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

The brain is wider than the sky.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

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

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Glee! The great storm is over!

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.