Emily Dickinson Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Pain Quotes

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — 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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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

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IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

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The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

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I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

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Bring me the sunset in a cup.

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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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I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

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MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

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Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?

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When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

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Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

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