1,046 Quotes by 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.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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.

I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie.

Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Till I loved I never lived.