Emily Dickinson Quotes

A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

Emily Dickinson

Quotes to Explore

The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Future
- Past
- Change
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

Barbara Boxer
- Time
- Help
- Law
There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

Samantha Barks
- Live
- You
- Crying
If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

Caitlyn Jenner
- Life
- Rest
- Win
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

Nathalie Sarraute
- Up
- Writing
- Women
I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

Padgett Powell
- Up
- Fun
- Down