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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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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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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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Love is everything. And that's all we know about it.

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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

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Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

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I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

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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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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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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

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Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

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THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

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The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

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Action is redemption.

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