There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson Poetry
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. Emily Dickinson Age
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Emily Dickinson Death
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Emily Dickinson Famous
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson Hope
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. Emily Dickinson Smile
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson Alone
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson Poetry
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Emily Dickinson Great