Emily Dickinson Quotes, Arrows Quotes, Atheism Quotes

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

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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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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

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My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

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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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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

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The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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

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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 died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.

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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

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

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