Quotes / Emily Dickinson

QUOTES

by Emily Dickinson

Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Boldness

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Death and Dying

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dissent

Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .

Home

Where thou art, that is home.

Joy

'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!

Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Poetry and Poets

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

Present

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

Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Words

A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.