Quotes by Dickinson, Emily

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily on dissent
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"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life!"

Dickinson, Emily on doctors
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"Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir."

Dickinson, Emily on editing and editors   

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

Dickinson, Emily on fame
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"The fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on famous last words
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"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."

Dickinson, Emily on farewells
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily on art
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"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved."

Dickinson, Emily on heaven   

"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?"

Dickinson, Emily on home   

"Where thou art, that is home."

Dickinson, Emily on home
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!"

Dickinson, Emily on insects   

"'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!"

Dickinson, Emily on joy   

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

Dickinson, Emily on anger
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on love
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"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned."

Dickinson, Emily on luck
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --"

Dickinson, Emily on madness
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"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem."

Dickinson, Emily on nature   

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily on poetry and poets   

"I dwell in Possibility."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else."

Dickinson, Emily on present   

"Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"

Dickinson, Emily on science
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"His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part."

Dickinson, Emily on secrets   

"To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe."

Dickinson, Emily on sorrow
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"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

Dickinson, Emily on success
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"I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --"

Dickinson, Emily on suffering   

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all."

Dickinson, Emily on belief   

"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

Dickinson, Emily on boldness
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

Dickinson, Emily on books - reading   

"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."

Dickinson, Emily on books - reading
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day."

Dickinson, Emily on words
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"Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God."

Dickinson, Emily on consciousness