Quotes on Emily

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.

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

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.