Quotes by Emily Dickinson

“Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.”

“Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat.”

“My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.”

“Where thou art that is home.”

“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.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.”

“The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.”

“To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.”

“Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation and The exponent of breath.”

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

“Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.”

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

“The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”

“Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.”

“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”