The 75 best quotes by Emily Dickinson (and famous quotes)

We review the best verses and thoughts of this American poet.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was a prominent American poet. Along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, she is one of the most important poets in American literature.

During his life he wrote 1800 poems, although most of them did not come to light until after his death.

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Emily Dickinson's phrases (and featured verses).

In today's article we are going to know more in depth the work of this poet. Through the best phrases of Emily Dickinson we will know her thoughts and most personal reflections..

Let's start.

1. Hope is that feathery thing that perches on the soul and sings endlessly.

A breath of fresh air.

2. To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

In praise of leisurely reading.

3. Those who are loved cannot die, Because love means immortality.

Love transcends physical boundaries, according to Emily Dickinson.

4. Forever is made of many.

A reflection on eternity.

5. We ignore our true stature until we stand.

As usual with Emily Dickinson, here she illustrates a metaphor that we can apply to many things in life.

6. If I have the physical sensation of having my brains lifted, I know that is poetry.

The most exciting sensation is the one produced by literature.

7. Good luck is not by chance, it is the product of work; thus the smile of fortune has to be hard earned.

Luck only exists for those who struggle to deserve it.

8. "Always" is made up of nows.

Many present moments constitute eternity.

9. If I can keep a Heart from breaking, I will not live in vain.

On his romantic view of existence.

10. That it will never happen again is what makes life so sweet.

You only live once, and you have to take life seriously.

11. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold that no fire can ever warm me, I know it's poetry.

Another ode to good poetry.

12. Not knowing when the dawn will come.

That is one of life's fears.

13. A little madness in the spring is healthy even for the king.

Regardless of public office or political relevance, anyone deserves to go wild once in a while.

14. Morning without you is a waning dawn.

Without you it's not the same.

15. This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.

One of those Emily Dickinson's phrases that draws us a nice paradox.

16. To say nothing sometimes says more.

Less is more, in many facets of life.

17. Nature is a haunted house, but it is a house that tries to be haunted.

For deep reflection.

18. Living is so amazing that it leaves little time for anything else.

There is not much free time to be bored.

19. Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Nice morning image.

20. Beauty is not caused. It is.

Beauty exists, whatever its cause.

21. Forgive my sanity in a mad world.

Another paradox of the American poet.

22. Dogs are better than humans because they know but don't count.

An animalistic phrase that emphasizes her love for dogs.

23. The soul must always be ajar, ready to receive the ecstatic experience.

A mental and bodily openness to the joys that life has in store for us.

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

Praising the power of a well-written verse.

25. Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell.

Reality far outweighs fiction.

26. Cherish your parents because it's a scary and confusing world without them.

When we lose them we realize how important they were to our balance.

27. The dearest of times, the strongest friends of the soul: books.

Inseparable friends.

28. The heart wants what it wants, or else it doesn't care.

We cannot rationalize our feelings,

29. I do not profess to be profound; but I claim common sense.

A plea to the ignorant masses.

30. We do not grow older with years, but newer every day.

Every day we have more knowledge and we can (and should) be freer.

31. One need not be a camera to be persecuted.

To free interpretation.

32. Until I loved I never lived.

It is in this state that we perceive things we did not before.

33. I'm outside with flashlights, looking for myself.

A metaphor about doubts about one's own identity.

34. I felt safe talking to you.

Social relationships sometimes create emotional safe places.

35. Beautiful flowers embarrass me. They make me regret not being a bee.

The desire generated by beauty can make us feel bad.

36. A great hope fell. You did not hear its noise. The ruin was inside.

The destruction of hopes is silent, since nothing that has existed is eliminated.

37. Life is such an exquisite spell that everything conspires to break it.

There are many elements that attempt against the integrity of life.

38. It is not possible to love the beloved. For love is immortality.

In part, to love is something beyond our control.

39. We never know how high we are until we are called to ascend.

About how we value our potential.

40. Love is its own ransom; for we, in our supreme sense, are only its trembling emblems.

A way of seeing emotions as something that escapes our control and expresses itself through us.

41. I will love always; I assure you that love is life, and life has immortality.

These emotional bonds go beyond the individual.

42. But a book is only the portrait of the heart, each page is a pulse.

Interesting interpretation of the anatomy of a book.

43. We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, until it shows up in an antique shop, like the suits worn by grandparents.

That which has to do with love never disappears completely.

44. Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell.

One of Emily Dickinson's phrases about the feeling of loss.

45. Love is before life, after death, the initial of creation and the exponent of breath.

Love is part of the potential of life, it transcends it.

46. Write to me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

Feelings that go beyond time.

47. A wounded loved one jumps higher.

That which touches us closely follows us wherever we go.

48. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sensation of living is joy enough.

The climax at which all that is good in life is reached is life itself.

49. I must go in, the fog is rising.

Decisions forced by circumstances.

50. Judge tenderly about me.

Valuing someone without forgetting that he is a human being.

51. How do most people live without thinking about it? There are many people in the world, you must have noticed them in the street, how do they live? How do they get the strength to put on their clothes in the morning?

An existential doubt about what makes us move forward and go on living.

52. I tasted life.

Life understood as an experiment.

53. Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels or believes.

What matters is that which is embodied in actions that have a clear effect on the environment.

54. The sun alone touched the morning; the morning, happy, was supposed to have come to live, and life would be spring.

Nice metaphor about the sunrise.

55. My love for those I love, not many, not many, but don't I love them so?

The quality and quantity of love relationships do not go hand in hand.

56. It is not that dying hurts us, but that living hurts us more.

The fact of living makes us fear death.

57. Anger as soon as it is fed is dead.

Anger leads to a dead end.

58. The slow fuse of the possible is lit by the imagination.

Only imagination can precipitate the existence of something that remains latent.

59. That love is all there is, is all we know of love.

Love can only be known through experience.

60. To die is a wild night and a new path.

One of the most personal descriptions of death.

61. My friends are my assets.

Relationships are part of our capital.

62. To be alive is power.

The simple fact of existing gives us the possibility of putting our desires into practice.

63. They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as a recluse.

A play of concepts about the concept of the Christian god.

64. I am nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?

A curious line of dialogue that gives way to forms of friendship based on compatibility.

65. I've been bent and broken, but -I hope- in a better way.

Our discomfort is relative.

66. In this short life that lasts but an hour, how much, how little, is within our power.

One of Emily Dickinson's reflections on what is beyond our control.

67. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Bad times heal us in adversity.

68. Faith is a good invention when gentlemen can see, but microscopes are prudent in an emergency.

In the absence of evidence, blind belief is risky.

69. I can't live with you, it would be life, and life is there behind the shelf.

Falling in love implies adopting an active role that not everyone is willing to accept.

70. My best acquaintances are those with whom I have never spoken a word.

About relationships based on situations that go beyond language.

71. Until I have loved, no man or woman can become himself or herself.

These kinds of emotional bonds complete us.

72. Your brain is wider than the sky.

The ability to imagine makes us capable of infinite thought and feeling.

73. Luck is not chance, it is work; fortune's costly smile is earned.

Practically nothing important and positive comes by chance.

74. When something is done for the first time, a little demon is released.

The novelty of our actions makes us think of that possibility on more occasions.

75. To wait means to be ready at all times for what has not yet been born, and yet not to despair if there is no birth in our life.

Ingenious description of what it means to hope.