“Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death.”

— Emily Dickinson, Love – is anterior to Life (poem)

About Emily Dickinson

1830 – 1886

American poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most of them unpublished in her lifetime, on nature, death, faith and the inner life.

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes.”

“I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – Too?”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”