Emily Dickinson Love Quotes and Sayings

Emily Dickinson Love Quotes and Sayings

#1-3 Love — thou art high — [S]

1. Love — thou art high —
I cannot climb thee —

2. Love — thou are deep —
I cannot cross thee —

3. Love — thou are Veiled —
A few — behold thee —

#4 We outgrow love, like other things [S]

4. We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

#5-6 Letter to Susan Dickinson

5. …I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. The sun does’nt shine at all, but I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose. [S]

6. Unable are the Loved—to die—
For Love is immortality—
Nay—it is Deity— [S]

#7 The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise

7. An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.

#8 Letter to Colonel T. W. Higginson, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

8. Love is its own rescue, for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

#9 That I did always love

9. That I did always love
I bring thee Proof
That till I loved
I never lived—Enough—

#10 Letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland

10. …love me if you will, for I had rather be loved than to be called a king in earth, or a lord in Heaven. [S]

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Excerpt from Wikiquote: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.
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Sayings by Emily Dickinson

#1 Letter to Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1871, Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

1. To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations, though friends are, if possible, an event more fair.

#2 Letter to Louise Norcross [S]

2. We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

#3 Success is counted sweetest [S]

3. Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.

#4 “Hope” is the thing with feathers — [S]

4. “Hope” is the thing with feathers —
That perches in the soul —
And sings the tune without the words —
And never stops — at all —

#5 Dreams — are well — but Waking’s better, [S]

5. Dreams — are well — but Waking’s better,
If One wake at morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn —

#6 Who has not found the Heaven — below — [S]

6. Who has not found the Heaven — below —
Will fail of it above —
For Angels rent the House next ours,
Wherever we remove —

#7 If I can stop one Heart from breaking

7. 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.

#8 Forever – is composed of Nows –

8. Forever – is composed of Nows –
‘Tis not a different time –
Except for Infiniteness –
And Latitude of Home –

#9 The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

9. Opinion is a flitting thing
But truth outlasts the sun.
If then we cannot own them both,
Possess the oldest one.

#10 The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

10. I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

#11 Letter to Mrs. Samuel Bowles, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

11. The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care.

#12 Letter to Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, April 1862, Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

12. You ask of my Companions Hills–Sir–and the Sundown–and a Dog–large as myself, that my Father bought me–They are better than Beings–because they know-but do not tell–

#13 Letter to Lucretia Bullard, Cambridge, about 1864 [S]

13. The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret I am not a Bee–

#14 Thomas Johnson’s Note on Letter 405 [S]

14. …there is always one thing to be grateful for–that one is one’s self and not somebody else.

#15 That it will never come again [S]

15. That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.

#16 Letter to Frances and Louise Norcross, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

16. Each that we lose takes part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.

#17 Letter to Colonel T. W. Higginson, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

17. The sailor cannot see the north, but knows the needle can.

#18 Letter to Mrs. Strong, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [S]

18. The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

#19 To see the Summer Sky

19. To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—

#20 Tell all the truth but tell it slant —

20. The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

#21 Luck is not chance

21. Luck is not chance—
It’s Toil—
Fortune’s expensive smile
Is earned—

#22 Look back on Time, with kindly eyes—

22. Look back on Time, with kindly eyes—
He doubtless did his best—
How softly sinks that trembling sun
In Human Nature’s West—

#23 Faith—is the Pierless Bridge

23. Faith—is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not—

#24 Letter to Mrs. Joseph Haven, 13 February 1859, Selected Letters [S]

24. I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

#25 Letter to Colonel T. W. Higginson [S]

25. Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits.

#26 Letter to Colonel T. W. Higginson [S]

26. Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

#27 Surgeons must be very careful

27. Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit—Life!

#28 Such is the Force of Happiness—

28. Such is the Force of Happiness—
The Least—can lift a Ton
Assisted by its stimulus—

#29 To lose one’s faith—surpass

29. To lose one’s faith—surpass
The loss of an Estate—
Because Estates can be
Replenished—faith cannot—