Emily Dickinson Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Snow Quotes

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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There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

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Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

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Wonder is not precisely knowing.

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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

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in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

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I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

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I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

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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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Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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

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The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

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To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.

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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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