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Emily Dickinson Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“I have one purpose on this earth and that is to become a great writer.”
— Emily Dickinson, Dickinson, Season 1: Because I could not stop
Tagged: purpose, Earth, writer
“We can find no scar, but internal difference  where the Meanings, are.”
— Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light
Tagged: Divisiveness, Where Meaning Comes From, The Scar of Life
“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Breakups, Love & Relationships, love & life, poem, Poetry
“I've known her from an ample nation
Choose one;
Then close the valves of her attention
Like stone.”
— Emily Dickinson, The Soul selects her own Society
Tagged: Slant Rhyme Examples
“It tossed and tossed, — A little brig I knew, — O’ertook by blast, It spun and spun, And groped delirious, for morn.”
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature
“A something in a summer’s noon, — 
An azure depth, a wordless tune, 
Transcending ecstasy.”
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Leave Society, Far Out, Azure, Descriptions of Pleasure
““Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -”
— Emily Dickinson, "Hope" is the thing with feathers
Tagged: Hope
“Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?”
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Alliteration, Natural Imagery, Vitality, Cultivation, Growth, Inner Life
“I love when people quote me.”
— Emily Dickinson, Dickinson, Season 1: Because I could not stop
Tagged: Quote, Love, flattered
“Tragically, I am a woman.”
— Emily Dickinson, Dickinson, Season 1: Because I could not stop
Tagged: tragic, difficult, Woman, Identity
“The truth I do not dare to know.”
— Emily Dickinson, Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Truth About Love, Honesty
“I am standing alone in rebellion, and growing very careless.”
— Emily Dickinson, Letters
Tagged: rebel, Wild Child, Reckless
“I must go in, for the fog is rising.”
— Emily Dickinson, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Beautiful Last Words, Famous, Death
“A wounded deer leaps highest.”
— Emily Dickinson, A wounded deer leaps highest
Tagged: Poetry, emily dickinson, writer, Grief, Pain
“I scarcely know where to begin, but love is always a safe place.”
— Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson Letters
Tagged: Love, Confusion, Chaos, Beginnings
“Until the moss had reached our lips, and covered up our names.”
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tagged: Soothing Language, Connection
“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”
— Emily Dickinson, 21 Absolutely Heartwrenching Quotes On Loss And Grief
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Life, Hopelessness, Heaven, Hell, Immortality, Mortality
“I find it shelter to speak to you.”
— Emily Dickinson, Book Of Quotations
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, Friends, BFF Quotes
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