Emily Dickinson Quotes, Dark Quotes, Thinking Quotes

What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.

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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

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To be alive──is Power.

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

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This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.

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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

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The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

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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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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — 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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The Soul selects her own Society.

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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

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

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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

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I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

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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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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

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