Emily Dickinson Quotes
American poet whose short, intense poems explored hope, death, nature and the soul. Published mostly after her death, her work is now among the most loved in English poetry. Below are 16 of the most loved Emily Dickinson quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
My friends are my estate.
To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.
Forever is composed of nows.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
I dwell in Possibility — a fairer house than Prose.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.