Quotes by Emily Dickinson

“New heart makes new health, dear. Happiness is haleness.”

“I love, till my heart is red as February and purple as March.”

“My heart grows light so fast that I could mount a grasshopper and gallop around the world, and not fatigue him any!”

“Have you blossoms and books, those solaces of sorrow?”

“A precious – mouldering pleasure – 'tis – To meet an Antique Book – In just the Dress his Century wore – A privilege – I think – His venerable Hand to take – And warming in our own – A passage back – or two – to make – To Times when he – was young... His presence is enchantment – You beg him not to go – Old Volumes shake their Vellum Heads And tantalize – just so –”

“I had rather be loved than to be called a king in earth, or a lord in Heaven.”

“I love you... and always I have a chair for you in the smallest parlor in the world, to wit, my heart.”

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”