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Emily Dickinson Quotes
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About Emily Dickinson
 Life: 1830 - 1886 Country:  America Profession: Poet; Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century.
more... QuotationsBeauty is not caused. It is. ~ Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ~ Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate. ~ Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility
A fairer House than Prose
More numerous of Windows
Superior--for Doors
Of Chambers as the Cedars
Impregnable of Eye
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky
Of Visitors--the fairest
For Occupation--This
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise ~ Emily Dickinson - I dwell in possibility
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. ~ Emily Dickinson
Where thou art, that, is Home. ~ Emily Dickinson
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away. ~ Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers--
That perches on the soul--
And sings the tune without the words--
And never stops--at all--
~ Emily Dickinson
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