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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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

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Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

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Hope . . . never stops at all.

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The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.

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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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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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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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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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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

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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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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

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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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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.

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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

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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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Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

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The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

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