Quotes by Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

They might not need me but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.