Emily Dickinson Quotes, Life Quotes, Heart Quotes

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

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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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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer

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Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

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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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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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Forever is comprised of nows.

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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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

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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

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Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

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