Emily Dickinson Quotes, Dust Quotes, Poverty Quotes

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

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PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

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Home is the definition of God.

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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

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In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

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

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

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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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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

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We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

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