Emily Dickinson Quotes

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

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This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

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The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

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The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

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Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

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The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.

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AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

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Wonder is not precisely knowing.

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Friends are nations in themselves.

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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

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