Emily Dickinson: Quotes about love

Emily Dickinson was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Love — thou art Veiled —
A few — behold thee —
Smile — and alter — and prattle — and die —
Bliss — were an Oddity — without thee —
Nicknamed by God —
Eternity”

Emily Dickinson Love — thou art high

453: Love — thou art high —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

Emily Dickinson

“We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.”

Emily Dickinson

887: We outgrow love, like other things
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Love, p. 167
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

Emily Dickinson

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”

Emily Dickinson

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”

Emily Dickinson

“Till I loved I never liked enough.”

Emily Dickinson

Variant: Till I loved I never lived.

“The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity”

Emily Dickinson

“This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me —
The simple News that Nature told —
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see —
For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen —
Judge tenderly — of Me”

Emily Dickinson This is my letter to the World

441: This is my letter to the World
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God’s residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.”

Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 54
Collected Poems (1993)