Emily Dickinson Quotes

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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

I dwell in possibility.

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

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

Forever is composed of nows.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

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

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

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