Quotes from Emily Dickinson

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

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

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

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

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