Emily Dickinson Quotes, Yellow Quotes, Waiting Quotes

AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

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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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Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

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PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

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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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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

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... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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To shut your eyes is to travel.

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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way

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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

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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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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

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