Emily Dickinson Quotes

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

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I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

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

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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

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To shut your eyes is to travel.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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Home is the definition of God.

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Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

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Forever is made up of nows.

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Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.

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We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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