Emily Dickinson Quotes, Life Quotes, Past Quotes

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

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

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Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

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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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Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

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When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.

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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

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These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

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A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides

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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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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

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The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

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Friends are nations in themselves.

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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

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