Quotes from Emily Dickinson

Not at home to callers Says the naked tree – Jacket due in April. Wishing you good day.

...the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS...

I love, till my heart is red as February and purple as March.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the Exponent of earth.

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

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

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

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!