Emily Dickinson Quotes

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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

There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

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

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Where thou art, that is home.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

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.

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