Poetry Quote by Emily Dickinson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.”

“The bustle in a house”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“Heart, we will forget him!”

“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your dear face, yet not one word comes back to me. If it is finished, tell me, and I will raise the lid to my box of Phantoms, and lay one more love in; but if it lives and beats still, still lives and beats for me, then say so, and I will strike the strings to one more strain of happiness before I die.”

“I think I like my brain best”

“bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.”

“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your dear face, yet not one word comes back to me. If it is finished, tell me, and I will raise the lid to my box of Phantoms, and lay one more love in; but if it lives and beats still, still lives and beats for me, then say so, and I will strike the strings to one more strain of happiness before I die.”

“They will tell you home is safe zone.”

“An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:”