Emily Dickinson Quotes

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Born: Dec 10, 1830
Died: May 15, 1886
Life Love Love Is Me Mother You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
I'm nobody, who are you? Emily Dickinson
You Nobody Who
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. Emily Dickinson
You Mother Hurry Troubled Never Had Suppose Whom
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson
Book Poetry Take Like Prancing Nor Any Us Lands Page Away
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Emily Dickinson
Great Feeling Sit Pain Nerves Like Formal After Tombs
The brain is wider than the sky. Emily Dickinson
Sky Brain Than Wider
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. Emily Dickinson
Age Witness Decision Year Doubt Final Indeed Admirers Shall Crowds Perfect Delight Reach Make Bidding How Am Very Expect Handsome Suspense While Them Then Await Amherst Growing Fast Belle
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. Emily Dickinson
Finite Fail Venture Infinite
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. Emily Dickinson
Words Dust Frame Drank Ate Spirit More He Knew Robust His Nor Precious Grew Poor
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. Emily Dickinson
Nature Mother Will Our She Eldest Harm
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only! Emily Dickinson
God Faith Me Song Bird Sum Those Only Cage Him Makes Sisters Suspected Woods Which Far Flight Shrewd Dainty Things
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Emily Dickinson
Life Broken Stumble Hopes Likes Well Sure Pile Lest
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. Emily Dickinson
Better Hammer Than Anvil
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. Emily Dickinson
Eyes Hair Guest Wren Small Had Glass Like Am Leaves Bold Now Portrait
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. Emily Dickinson
Me Mother Care Father Mind Thought Fears Sister Busy Too Books Brother Brother And Sister He Read Because Does His Them Notice Many Buys
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