“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.”
— Emily Dickinson
“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.”
— Emily Dickinson
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
— Emily Dickinson
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
— Emily Dickinson
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
— Emily Dickinson
“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.”
— Emily Dickinson