Quotes from Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.

Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

The fog is rising.

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

For Love is Immortality.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.