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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Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

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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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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise

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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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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

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I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

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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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

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AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

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

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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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Judge tenderly of me.

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You can stay young as long as you learn.

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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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