Emily Dickinson Quotes

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

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Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

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I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!

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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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The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

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The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

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Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

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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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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

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A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

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

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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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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

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