--- title: "6 Haunted Quotes By Emily Dickinson" description: "6 Haunted quotes by Emily Dickinson. Plus more from Emily Dickinson and more Haunted sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/emily-dickinson-310_abbey_one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted_663020.jpg" --- > [One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted-one-need-not-be-a-house-the/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/emily-dickinson-310_abbey_one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted_663020.jpg) > [You don't have to be a house to be haunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/you-don-t-have-to-be-a-house-to-be-haunted/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/emily-dickinson-310_home_you-don-t-have-to-be-a-house-to-be-haunt_1067371.jpg) > [“One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted-one-need-not-be-a-house-the-2/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/emily-dickinson-310_ghosts_one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted_1363020.jpg) > [One need not be a chamber to be haunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/emily-dickinson-310_inspirational_one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted_2130402.jpg) > [Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/nature-is-a-haunted-house-but-art-is-a-house-that-tries-to-be-haunted/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbd/emily-dickinson-310_art_nature-is-a-haunted-house-but-art-is-a-h_2139066.jpg) > [“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/art-is-a-house-that-tries-to-be-haunted/) [Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/emily-dickinson-310_art_art-is-a-house-that-tries-to-be-haunted_2355584.jpg) ## Other authors on Haunted ## 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/haunted/emily-dickinson/#itemlist", "name": "6 Haunted Quotes By Emily Dickinson", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors — surpassing Material Place— Far safer, of a Midnight — meeting External Ghost— Than an Interior — Confronting— That cooler — Host. 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