I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody, who are you?
Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson