Emily Dickinson Quotes, Death Quotes, Distance Quotes

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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It is finished, is never said of us

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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.

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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

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Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

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I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.

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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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Love is like life-merely longer.

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.

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We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

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I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

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I dwell in possiblities.

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A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still

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

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