Emily Dickinson Quotes, Food Quotes, Past Quotes

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

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Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

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I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

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A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

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We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

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Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

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Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

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By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise

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I dwell in possibility.

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This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.

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I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

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