Emily Dickinson Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Jewels Quotes

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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It is finished, is never said of us

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The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.

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To be alive──is Power.

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The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

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It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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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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To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

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Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

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