Emily Dickinson quotes

1830–1886 · Amherst, Massachusetts

• There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

• Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words, / And never stops at all,

• I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody, too? / Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! / They'd banish us, you know.

• I never saw a moor, / I never saw the sea; / Yet know I how the heather looks, / And what a wave must be.

• If I can stop one heart from breaking, / I shall not live in vain; / If I can ease one life the aching, / Or cool one pain, / Or help one fainting robin / Unto his nest again, / I shall not live in vain.

• Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need.