Remarkable mind
Emily Dickinson
American poet · 1830–1886
Emily Dickinson spent most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, and developed one of the most distinctive voices in American poetry. Only a small number of her poems appeared during her lifetime; the nearly 1,800 poems discovered after her death explore death, faith, nature, hope, language and the movements of the inner life.
Selected works and contributions
- Because I could not stop for Death
- Hope is the thing with feathers
- I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Ideas to explore
- Hope
- Mortality
- Nature
- Inner life
Emily Dickinson quotes in the generator
“My friends are my estate.”
— 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
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Forever is composed of nows.”
— Emily Dickinson
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
— Emily Dickinson
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