Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

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Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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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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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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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

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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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The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.

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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

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Where thou art, that is home.

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The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.

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The Soul should always stand ajar.

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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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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

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Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

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And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

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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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