Emily Dickinson Quotes, Life Quotes, Past Quotes

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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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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Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-

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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

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This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

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The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?

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Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

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I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!

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