110+ Emily Dickinson Quotes On Death, Friendship And Nature

Emily Dickinson was an American poet who lived in the 19th century. She is widely considered one of the greatest American poets of all time and is known for her unique and often enigmatic style of writing. Dickinson's poetry often focused on themes of death, love, and nature, and she wrote over 1,800 poems during her lifetime. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Emily Dickinson on love, death, friendship.

Top 10 Emily Dickinson Quotes

1. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.
2. I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
3. Forever is composed of nows.
4. We turn not older with years but newer every day.
5. If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
6. I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
7. I must go in, the fog is rising.
8. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
9. Bring me the sunset in a cup.
10. Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Emily Dickinson Image Quotes

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

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

Bring me the sunset in a cup. — Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. — Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is. — Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. — Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. — Emily Dickinson

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

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest. — Emily Dickinson

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. — Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky. — Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - — Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson Short Quotes

• Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
• Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
• Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
• A wounded deer leaps the highest.
• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
• The brain is wider than the sky.
• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Love

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

Till I loved I never lived. — Emily Dickinson

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love. — Emily Dickinson

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose. — Emily Dickinson

For love is immortality. — Emily Dickinson

The Soul should always stand ajar. — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Death

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. — Emily Dickinson

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. — Emily Dickinson

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road. — Emily Dickinson

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust. — Emily Dickinson

Let us go in; the fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality. — Emily Dickinson

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-. — Emily Dickinson

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men — Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Friendship

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

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. — Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! — Emily Dickinson

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

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. — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Life

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson 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. — Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee! — Emily Dickinson

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring. — Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. — Emily Dickinson

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

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth — Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Nature

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! — Emily Dickinson

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. — Emily Dickinson

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee— — Emily Dickinson

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed. — Emily Dickinson

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own! — Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me. — Emily Dickinson

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear... — Emily Dickinson

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen! — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Beauty

Beauty is not caused. It is. — Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is. — Emily Dickinson

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-. — Emily Dickinson

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

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room — Emily Dickinson

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

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

Beauty crowds me till I die. — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Writing

A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend? — Emily Dickinson

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir. — Emily Dickinson

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS. — Emily Dickinson

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured. — Emily Dickinson

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Words

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word — Emily Dickinson

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. — Emily Dickinson

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

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. — Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity. — Emily Dickinson

The fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense. — Emily Dickinson

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Immortality

The only secret people keep is immortality. — Emily Dickinson

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity. — Emily Dickinson

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. — Emily Dickinson

Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall. — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Famous Quotes And Sayings

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

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

Bring me the sunset in a cup. — Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is. — Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. — Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. — Emily Dickinson

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

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest. — Emily Dickinson

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. — Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky. — Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - — Emily Dickinson

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

I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun! — Emily Dickinson

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. — Emily Dickinson

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. — Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. — Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. — Emily Dickinson

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

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity. — Emily Dickinson

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. — Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. — Emily Dickinson

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. — Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years. — Emily Dickinson

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. — Emily Dickinson

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. — Emily Dickinson

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. — Emily Dickinson

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

The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil. — Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home. — Emily Dickinson

I felt it shelter to speak to you. — Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? — Emily Dickinson

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own. — Emily Dickinson

Hope is a thing with feathers — Emily Dickinson

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here. — Emily Dickinson

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! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! — Emily Dickinson

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. — Emily Dickinson

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. — Emily Dickinson

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. — Emily Dickinson

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. — Emily Dickinson

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given. — Emily Dickinson

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there. — Emily Dickinson

Publication - is the auction of the mind. — Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him! — Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. — Emily Dickinson

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-. — Emily Dickinson

You can stay young as long as you learn. — Emily Dickinson

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-. — Emily Dickinson

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

The Brain is wider than the sky-. — Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Emily Dickinson

When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground. — Emily Dickinson

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. — Emily Dickinson

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else. — Emily Dickinson

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. — Emily Dickinson

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. — Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. — Emily Dickinson

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

Pain has an element of blank — Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. — Emily Dickinson

The revery alone will do If bees are few. — Emily Dickinson

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven. — Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me — Emily Dickinson

Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity. — Emily Dickinson

Life Lessons by Emily Dickinson

1. Emily Dickinson's poetry encourages us to appreciate the beauty of life, even in its darkest moments. She encourages us to be brave and to take risks, and to never be afraid to express ourselves. She also reminds us to take joy in the small moments and to be grateful for the beauty of life.
2. Emily Dickinson's poetry teaches us to be resilient and to never give up, no matter how difficult life may seem. She encourages us to find strength in adversity and to never be afraid to take risks.
3. Emily Dickinson's poetry reminds us to be true to ourselves and to never be afraid to express our true feelings. She encourages us to be kind to others and to find joy in the small moments of life.