Fortune befriends the bold.

—Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

Portrait of Emily Dickinson

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 Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.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...

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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

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

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

—Emily Dickinson

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons—That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes—

—Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

—Emily Dickinson

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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

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Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.

—Charlotte Joko Beck

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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

—Walt Whitman

Fortune favors the brave.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

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