Emily Dickinson Quotes on Life (31 Quotes)

Crowns of Life" are servile Prizes
To the stately Heart,
Given for the Giving, solely,
No Emolument.

I had no time to Hate --
Because
The Grave would hinder Me --
And Life was not so
Ample I
Could finish -- Enmity --

When Choice of Life -- is past --
There yet remains a Love
Its little Fate to stipulate --

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

At last, the lamps upon thy side
The rest of Life to see!

As if my life were shaven,
And fitted to a frame,
And could not breathe without a key,
And 'twas like Midnight, some -

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Escape -- it is the Basket
In which the Heart is caught
When down some awful Battlement
The rest of Life is dropt --

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they said.

The Stars thou meetst
Are even as Thyself --
For what are Stars but Asterisks
To point a human Life?

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Oh Life, begun in fluent Blood
And consummated dull!

The River reaches to my feet --
As yet -- My Heart be dry --
Oh Lover -- Life could not convince --
Might Death -- enable Thee --

Groped up, to see if God was there --
Groped backward at Himself
Caressed a Trigger absently
And wandered out of Life.

If certain, when this life was out --
That yours and mine, should be
I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind,
And take Eternity --

The life is thick -- I know it!

Between the form of Life and Life
The difference is as big
As Liquor at the Lip between
And Liquor in the Jug
The latter -- excellent to keep --
But for ecstatic need
The corkless is superior --
I know for I have tried

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the Shelf

The Sun -- just touched the Morning --
The Morning -- Happy thing --
Supposed that He had come to dwell --
And Life would all be Spring!

A Dew sufficed itself --
And satisfied a Leaf
And felt "how vast a destiny" --
"How trivial is Life!

One Pearl -- to me -- so signal --
That I would instant dive --
Although -- I knew -- to take it --
Would cost me -- just a life!

At least -- 'tis Mutual -- Risk --
Some -- found it -- Mutual Gain --
Sweet Debt of Life -- Each Night to owe --
Insolvent -- every Noon --

That makes two -- Him -- and Life!

Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord,
Then, I am ready to go!

Surgeons must be very careful, When they take the knife, Underneath their fine incisions, Stirs the Culprit Life.

No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here --

Who asketh more,
Must seek the neighboring life!

When it has just contained a Life
Then, Darling, it will close
And yet so bolder every Day
So turbulent it grows

At leisure is the Soul
That gets a Staggering Blow --
The Width of Life -- before it spreads
Without a thing to do --

To die -- without the Dying
And live -- without the Life
This is the hardest Miracle
Propounded to Belief.

He lived the Life of Ambush
And went the way of Dusk
And now against his subtle name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality intrenched
Within a star --