Emily Dickinson Quotes, Dream Quotes, Hurt Quotes

We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

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Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --

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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

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I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

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Spring is the Period Express from God.

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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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Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.

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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

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I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

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These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

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Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

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