Emily Dickinson
1830-1886

Emily Dickinson, reclusive during her lifetime, wrote poetry which she kept private and which was, with few exceptions, unknown until its discovery after her death.


Selected Emily Dickinson Quotations


* 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.

* If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

* We meet no Stranger, but Ourself

* The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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

* There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away Nor any courses like a page of prancing poetry This traverse may the poorest take without oppress of toil How frugal is the chariot that bears the human soul!

* SUCCESS is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

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