Emily Dickinson Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Dark Quotes

The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

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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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I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.

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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

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

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

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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

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The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

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A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

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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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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

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Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

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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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I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

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Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

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Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.

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