Emily Dickinson Quotes, Summer Quotes, Autumn Quotes

As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.

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All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

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

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What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

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March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.

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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

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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 stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way

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She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.

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

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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

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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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This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

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His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

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