Emily Dickinson Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Jewels Quotes

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

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It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

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The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

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I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

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I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

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In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

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Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

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Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

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