Looking for the best and inspirational Emily Dickinson quotes?
Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in 1830. She is best known for her poem “I felt a Funeral, in My Brain” and “Because I could not stop for Death.”
She grew up with five siblings. And her family had a very close relationship with each other, and they were very close to their neighbors, the Dickinsons, which is where she got her last name from. Until 1847, she attended Amherst Academy but then left due to the health concerns of one of its teachers. After leaving school, she spent many days reading books from the library or writing poetry about nature or people around her town.
Today she is widely considered one of the most distinguished poets in the world. Her reputation and her work have greatly influenced many contemporary poets globally.
Look at all the meaningful and inspiring quotes from her that will change how you see the world and what’s important.
81 Inspiring Emily Dickinson Quotes
“Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.”
“The heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”
“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency“
“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.”
“I don’t profess to be profound, but I do lay claim to common sense.”
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
“There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.”
“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”
“So impotent our wisdom to natures simplicity.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“Your brain is wider than the sky”
“Saying nothing sometimes says the most” -.Emily Dickinson
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes.”
“If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.”
“Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.”
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul–BOOKS.”
“I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.”
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.”
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – books.”
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
“The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.”
“Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
“A morning without you is dwindled dawn.”
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies.”
“You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.”
“Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”
“Not knowing when dawn will come I open every door.”
“The brain is wider than the sky.”
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
“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.”
“Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.”
“Beauty is not caused, it is.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And reverie. The reverie alone will do, If bees are few.”
“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.”
“I dwell in possibility.”
“Pardon my sanity in a world insane.”
“Love is immortality.”
“To shut your eyes is to travel.”
“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”
“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
“Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.”
“To live is startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”
“Forever is composed of nows.”
“The heart wants what it wants — or else it does not care.”
“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels or believes.”
“Why not have a big life?”
“I know nothing in the world that has much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it until it begins to shine.”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“Fortune befriends the bold.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.”
“These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.”
“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate – following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more“
“Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see unto the scene that we do not.”
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
“An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.”
“The abdication of belief makes the behavior small — better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
“I don’t profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”
“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”
