My friends are my estate.
— Emily Dickinson
Friendship
God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.
If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever 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?
— Emily Dickinson
Literature
"Faith" is a fine invention In an Emergency.
How dreary — to be — Somebody!
— Emily Dickinson
Famous Quotes
The Soul selects her own Society — Present no more —
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —And an Orchard, for a Dome—
— Emily Dickinson
Religion
God preaches, a noted Clergyman —I’m going, all along.
— Emily Dickinson
Religion
Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,