Quotes by 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.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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.

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.