Emily Dickinson

American poet

Lived from: 1830-1886

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

Quotes: Emily Dickinson

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  Beauty is not caused. It is.

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  Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

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  Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
  
  
  
  

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  Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

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

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  Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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  Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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  Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

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  Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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  Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

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  A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.

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

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  After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

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  Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

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  For each ecstatic instant.
  We must an anguish pay.
  In keen and quivering ratio.
  To the ecstasy.
  Source: Complete Poems (1924)

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