--- title: "7 Dare Quotes By Emily Dickinson" description: "7 Dare quotes by Emily Dickinson. Plus more from Emily Dickinson and more Dare sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/emily-dickinson-310_air_banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you_1240672.jpg" --- > [Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you-dare/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/emily-dickinson-310_air_banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you_1240672.jpg) > [A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/a-charm-invests-a-face-imperfectly-beheld-the-lady-dare-not-lift-her/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/emily-dickinson-310_charm_a-charm-invests-a-face-imperfectly-behel_1681832.jpg) > [The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/the-truth-i-do-not-dare-to-know-i-muffle-with-a-jest/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46c/emily-dickinson-310_dare_the-truth-i-do-not-dare-to-know-i-muffle_2132561.jpg) > [Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/dare-you-see-a-soul-at-the-white-heat/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d7/emily-dickinson-310_dare_dare-you-see-a-soul-at-the-white-heat-21_2180886.jpg) > [My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/my-faith-is-larger-than-the-hills-so-when-the-hills-decay-my-faith/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/emily-dickinson-310_arise_my-faith-is-larger-than-the-hills-so-whe_2182062.jpg) > [The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/the-loneliness-one-dare-not-sound-and-would-as-soon-surmise-as-in-its/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/430/emily-dickinson-310_alarms_the-loneliness-one-dare-not-sound-and-wo_2197324.jpg) > [I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/i-do-not-know-the-man-so-bold-he-dare-in-lonely-place-that-awful/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc0/emily-dickinson-310_awful_i-do-not-know-the-man-so-bold-he-dare-in_3055342.jpg) ## Other authors on Dare ## More by Emily Dickinson > [A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/a-light-exists-in-spring-not-present-on-the-year-at-any-other-period/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/i-could-not-prove-the-years-had-feet-yet-confident-they-run/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/how-softly-summer-shuts-without-the-creaking-of-a-door/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [“Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/could-you-tell-me-how-to-grow-or-is-it-unconveyed-like-melody-or/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/it-might-be-lonelier-without-the-loneliness-i-m-so-accustomed-to-my/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [“Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/inebriate-of-air-am-i-and-debauchee-of-dew-reeling-thro-endless/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/luck-is-not-chance-it-s-toil-fortune-s-expensive-smile-is-earned/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/the-abdication-of-belief-makes-the-behavior-small-better-an-ignis/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/longing-is-like-a-seed-that-wrestles-in-the-ground/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/he-ate-and-drank-the-precious-words-his-spirit-grew-robust-he-knew-no/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/i-see-thee-better-in-the-dark-i-do-not-need-a-light-the-love-of-thee/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/one-step-at-a-time-is-all-it-takes-to-get-you-there/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [“Whose fingers string the stalactite- Who counts the Wampum of the night”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/whose-fingers-string-the-stalactite-who-counts-the-wampum-of-the-night/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [My life closed twice before its close](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/my-life-closed-twice-before-its-close/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) > [Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/until-you-have-loved-you-cannot-become-yourself/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dare/emily-dickinson/#itemlist", "name": "7 Dare Quotes By Emily Dickinson", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Emily Dickinson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you-dare/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/emily-dickinson-310_air_banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you_1240672.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/emily-dickinson-310_air_banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you_1240672.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/emily-dickinson-310_air_banish-air-from-air-divide-light-if-you_1240672.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare” — Emily Dickinson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. 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