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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson

For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson

Fortune befriends the bold.
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 tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

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

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

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson