Emily Dickinson Quotes, Light Quotes, Genius Quotes

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

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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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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

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It is finished, is never said of us

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

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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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Home is the definition of God.

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To be alive──is Power.

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

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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

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Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

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I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

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