Emily Dickinson Quotes, Book Quotes

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

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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

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Till I loved I never lived.

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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

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I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

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A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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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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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

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The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

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I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

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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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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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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

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