Emily Dickinson Poet
Gender: Female
Citizenship: United States
Born: Dec 10, 1830
Died: May 15, 1886
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.
While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
hope
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
truth
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
life
Where thou art, that is home.
art & home
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
time
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
poetry
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
truth
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.
alone & nature
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
God
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
food
Beauty is not caused. It is.
beauty
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
death & love
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
morning & romantic
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
poetry
Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
smile
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
poetry
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
nature
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
age
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
death
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
great
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
experience
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
success
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.
smile
For love is immortality.
love
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
life & time
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
hope
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
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There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
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Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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