Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

" It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. "

Emily Dickinson

" Fortune befriends the bold. "

Emily Dickinson

" I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. "

Emily Dickinson

" Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. "

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

" God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally. "

Emily Dickinson

" Forever is composed of nows. "

Emily Dickinson

" Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. "

Emily Dickinson

" I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. "

Emily Dickinson

" Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. "

Emily Dickinson

" I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. "

Emily Dickinson

" 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. "

Emily Dickinson

" My friends are my estate. "

Emily Dickinson

" Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. "

Emily Dickinson

" Beauty is not caused. It is. "

Emily Dickinson

" Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. "

Emily Dickinson

" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. "

Emily Dickinson

" He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. "

Emily Dickinson

" They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. "

Emily Dickinson

" I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. "

Emily Dickinson

" Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. "

Emily Dickinson

" If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better. "

Emily Dickinson

" We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came. "

Emily Dickinson

" Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. "

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

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

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

" Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. "

Emily Dickinson

" I'm nobody, who are you? "

Emily Dickinson