Quotes from Emily Dickinson

Home is the definition of God.

Where thou art that is Home.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Hope is a thing with feathers

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

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

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

your brain is wider than the sky

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare

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

There is no Frigate like a book.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

I dwell in possibility.

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

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

You can stay young as long as you learn.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.