1.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Expectation is the thing with plumage that alights in the spirit - and hums the melodies without lyrics - and never rests.
2.
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson
I am embarking on a journey of self-discovery.
3.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
We do not age with passing time, rather we become increasingly refreshed each day.
4.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
I hope you savor birds as well. It is thrifty. It prevents a journey to paradise.
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.
Emily Dickinson
If you focus on the minimal details, the greater matters will look after themselves. You can attain a larger measure of authority over your life by paying more heed to the minutiae.
6.
I must go in, the fog is rising.
Emily Dickinson
I must venture inside, the mist is increasing.
7.
Bring me the sunset in a cup.
Emily Dickinson
Fetch me the twilight in a goblet.
8.
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
'Silence speaks volumes.'
9.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Experience rapture in life; the mere pleasure of existing is contentment enough.
10.
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
11.
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Emily Dickinson
12.
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
13.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Emily Dickinson
14.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson
15.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
16.
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily Dickinson
17.
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit-Life!
Emily Dickinson
18.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
19.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Emily Dickinson
20.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
21.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
22.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson
23.
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
24.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
Emily Dickinson
25.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
26.
Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
Emily Dickinson
27.
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
28.
I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
Emily Dickinson
29.
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
Emily Dickinson
30.
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
31.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
32.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
Emily Dickinson
33.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Emily Dickinson
34.
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
Emily Dickinson
35.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
36.
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.
Emily Dickinson
37.
No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here -
Emily Dickinson
38.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
39.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
40.
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
41.
The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas.
Emily Dickinson
42.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
43.
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
44.
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
45.
You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
Emily Dickinson
46.
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
47.
This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me
Emily Dickinson
48.
Till I loved I never lived.
Emily Dickinson
49.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
50.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
