Emily Quotes:

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

- Alice Hoffman

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: Important, Height, Emily

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

topic: Book, Taken, Fire, Emily, Reading Poetry

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

- Emily Dickinson

source: " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Soul, Hope And Faith, Extremity

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

- Emily Dickinson

source: c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

topic: Faith, Knowledge, Science, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

source: "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

topic: Life, Happiness, Positivity, Inner Peace And Happiness, Joy Of Living

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Writing, Enthusiasm, Said, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Women, Writing, Spiritual Soul, Inspirational Wisdom

Where thou art, that is home.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Happiness, Art, Soulmate, Emily, Comfort Of Home

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Memorial For Loved One, Pain In Life

There is no frigate like a book

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Book, Libraries Books And Reading, Emily, Prancing

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Summer, Nature, Tree, Inspirational Nature, Emily

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Letting Go, Pain, Heart, Quartz, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Life, Arguing, Emily

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

topic: Idols, Cooking, Fickle, Crumbs, Emily

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Needs, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Art, Emily, Haunted Houses

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Life, Knives, Culprit, Surgeons, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Kings, Spring, Insanity, March Poems, Spring Is Here

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

- Emily Bronte

source: Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

topic: Love, Anniversary, Romantic, Make Me Feel Special, Marriage And Love Inspirational

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Song, Wings, Bees, Emily

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

topic: Faith, Sea, Heaven, Emily, Moors

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Taken, Writing, Poetry, Great Poet, Emily

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Eye, Majority, Madness, Insanity And Sanity, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Good Luck, Toil, Chance, Emily, Preparation And Opportunity

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Inspirational Age, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Believe, Men, Thinking, Emily, Positive Behavior

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

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

topic: Life, Time, Memories, Meaning Life, Metaphors Of Life

I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

- Nick Flynn

topic: Kissing, Reflection, Night, Tripping, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: God, Spiritual, Memorable, Recluse, Emily

Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

- Jun Mochizuki

topic: Nice, Telling The Truth, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Labrador Dogs, Stray Dogs

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

- Emily Dickinson

source: "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

topic: Death, Spiritual, Emotional, Sympathy Card, Do Not Fear Death

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Life, Wisdom, Communication, Effective Communication, Emily

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1041, Harvard University Press

topic: Anger, Emotion, Fats, Emily, Feeling Angry

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Life, Women, Love Poems, Strong Independent Women

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Nature, Writing, Adversity, Emily

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up, Opportunity Knocking, Best Opportunity

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

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

topic: Inspirational, Life, Sweet, Life Being Too Short, Life Is Sweet

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Failure, Emily, Coworker

The brain is wider than the sky.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Learning, Sky, Emily

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Morning, Dawn, Funny Good Morning, Cute Love

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

- Emily Dickinson

source: "Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Vocabulary Words, Emily

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Death, Spiritual, Night, Wild Nights, Emily

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Pride, People, Sorrow, Ego And Pride, Emily

The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

- Liz Kessler

topic: Mermaid, Secret, Different, Emily