Emily Dickinson Quotes

You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

I dwell in possibility.

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.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.