Emily Dickinson Quotes, Grief Quotes, Eye Quotes

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

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To be alive──is Power.

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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

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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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Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

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I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

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

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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

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The only secret people keep is immortality.

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Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

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

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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

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