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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized."

Quotes from Emily Dickinson

When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

—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

Fortune befriends the bold.

—Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

love death immortality

Anger as soon as fed is dead- / 'Tis starving makes it fat.

—Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility...

—Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate.

—Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

—Emily Dickinson

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