Emily Dickinson: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

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

“Forever is composed of nows.”

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

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

“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever 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?”

“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”

“Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at Morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn”

“I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb,
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room —”

“He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty," I replied.
"And I — for Truth, — Themself are One —
We Brethren, are", He said —”

“Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.”

“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”

“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”

“PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to… to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.”

“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”