Emily Dickinson Quotes

My friends are my estate.

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?

"Faith" is a fine invention In an Emergency.

How dreary — to be — Somebody!

The Soul selects her own Society — Present no more —

Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,

Love — thou art Veiled —

I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —Between the Heaves of Storm —

Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet