Emily Dickinson Quotes, Book Quotes, Taken Quotes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

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Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?

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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

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Publication - is the auction of the mind.

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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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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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Forever is composed of nows.

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We turn not older with years but newer every day.

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Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

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Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

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I must go in, the fog is rising.

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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

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I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

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It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

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

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