Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote 1789 poems, only a few of them were published, all anonymously and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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Emily Dickinson

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

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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

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

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

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

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.

A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

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

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

Where thou art, that is home.

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

My friends are my estate.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

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

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

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

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

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

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

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Dwell in possibility.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.