Emily Dickinson
American poet
Till I loved I never lived.
- Emily Dickinson
Bring me the sunset in a cup.
- Emily Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
- Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate
- Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality
- Emily Dickinson
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well, lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
- Emily Dickinson
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes
- Emily Dickinson
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.
- Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
- Emily Dickinson
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency
- Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
- Emily Dickinson
Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?
- Emily Dickinson
Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
- Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
- Emily Dickinson
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.
- Emily Dickinson
Luck is not a chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned.
- Emily Dickinson