Emily Dickinson Quotes About Literature
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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
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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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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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