Emily Dickinson

American

About Emily Dickinson

American poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems, few of them published or signed in her lifetime.

Quotes by Emily Dickinson

Truth is a lonely word.
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
The Soul selects her own Society — / Then — shuts the Door — / To her divine Majority — / Present no more — / Unmoved — she notes the Chariots — pausing — / At her low Gate —
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Wild nights — Wild nights! / Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! / Rowing in Eden — Ah — the Sea! / Might I but moor — tonight — In thee!
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That it will never come again / Is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
Wild nights — Wild nights! / Were I with thee / Wild nights should be / Our luxury!
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That love is all there is, / Is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies.
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I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us!
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors—
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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
You gain a courage that is strange and unknown to you when you go down to the roots of things.
Emily Dickinson