Emily Dickinson Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Dark Quotes

The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

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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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I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.

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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

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

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Where thou art, that is home.

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Love is like life-merely longer.

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To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

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There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

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