Emily Dickinson Quotes, Death Quotes

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

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The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

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They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

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

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

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

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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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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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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

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Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

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And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream

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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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Hope . . . never stops at all.

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Love can do all but raise the Dead.

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