Top 100 Quotes About Dickinson
#1. And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!
Emily Dickinson
#2. All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
Amy Dickinson
#3. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.
David Dickinson
#4. I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
Kate Bernheimer
#5. Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
Emily Dickinson
#6. Inebriate of Air - am I
And Debauchee of Dew
Reeling - thro endless summer days
From Inns of Molten Blue -
Emily Dickinson
#8. Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
#9. Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide
Emily Dickinson
#12. In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
Emily Dickinson
#13. If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
Bruce Dickinson
#14. I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now
Emily Dickinson
#15. To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe.
Emily Dickinson
#16. As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.
Amy Dickinson
#17. A Word that Breathes Distinctly
Has not the Power to Die
Emily Dickinson
#18. Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
Emily Dickinson
#19. I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be
solitude, and the figures
solitude
and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
Emily Dickinson
#20. Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Bruce Dickinson
#21. Angie Dickinson in 'Hollywood Wives' took me under her wing. If you look at that cast, I was definitely an 'outcast' ... so to speak. Most of them were of the same era, or just so much more experienced that I was.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#22. Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.
Amy Dickinson
#23. Such is the force of Happiness
The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
Emily Dickinson
#24. Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
Emily Dickinson
#27. After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.
Emily Dickinson
#28. Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.
Arlene Dickinson
#29. Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
#30. Having less power doesn't mean you are of lesser worth and therefore don't have anything to offer
Arlene Dickinson
#31. Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.
Emily Dickinson
#32. I'd like to ask you a question, if I may."
"What?"
"All these poems you've written and hidden - so many poems. Why?"
While she thought, morning broke and the birds sang in the garden. "Because I could not stop.
Jeffrey Ford
#33. Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
Emily Dickinson
#34. Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.
Arlene Dickinson
#35. I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
Emily Dickinson
#37. Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
Janice Dickinson
#38. And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
Emily Dickinson
#39. AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
Emily Dickinson
#40. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense - the starkest Madness
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail
Assent - and you are sane
Demur - you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a Chain -
Emily Dickinson
#41. Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
Harold Bloom
#42. What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
Janice Dickinson
#43. To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -
Emily Dickinson
#44. I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.
Bruce Dickinson
#47. Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
Emily Dickinson
#48. My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
Marilynne Robinson
#49. Victory comes late
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it
Emily Dickinson
#50. When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he ...
Emily Dickinson
#51. Witchcraft was hung, in History,
But History and I
Find all the Witchcraft that we need
Around us, every Day -
Emily Dickinson
#54. I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity.
Emily Dickinson
#55. I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
Emily Dickinson
#56. Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.
Janice Dickinson
#58. There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.
Bruce Dickinson
#60. God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
Emily Dickinson
#61. Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.
John Green
#63. These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
Emily Dickinson
#64. Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.
Emily Dickinson
#65. Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.
Emily Dickinson
#66. Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
Emily Dickinson
#68. Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.
Amy Dickinson
#69. Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
Emily Dickinson
#70. I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
Janice Dickinson
#73. I HIDE myself within my flower
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness ...
Emily Dickinson
#74. I have been a servant too long. I want to help make something free.
Seth Dickinson
#76. By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.
Emily Dickinson
#77. Pain - has an Element of Blank
It cannot recollect
When it begun - or if there were
a time when it was not -
It has no Future - but itself -
Its Infinite contain
Its Past - enlightened to perceive
New Periods - of Pain.
Emily Dickinson
#78. When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.
Emily Dickinson
#79. I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Bruce Dickinson
#80. Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.
Emily Dickinson
#81. Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.
Amy Dickinson
#82. Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.
John Dickinson
#83. Softened by Time's consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood's citadel
And undermined the years!
Bisected now by bleaker griefs,
We envy the despair
That devastated childhood's realm,
So easy to repair.
Emily Dickinson
#84. Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.
Emily Dickinson
#85. The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
Emily Dickinson
#87. The small heart cannot break. The ecstasy of its penalty solaces the large.
Emily Dickinson
#88. I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great
there are temptations there which at home you are free from
beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.
Emily Dickinson
#89. Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls,
I speculate no more.
Emily Dickinson
#90. behind ourself, concealed - should startle most," wrote Emily Dickinson,
Stephen Cope
#91. I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.
Bruce Dickinson
#92. In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
Emily Dickinson
#94. How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!
Emily Dickinson
#99. No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!
Andy Richter
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