Quotes by Emily Dickinson

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.””

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can 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. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?””

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.””

“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us”

“I dwell in possibility…””

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.””

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

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.””

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.””

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane””

“A word is deadWhen it is said,Some say. I say it justBegins to liveThat day.””

“Beauty is not caused. It is.””

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.””