Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.
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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
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The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.
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Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.
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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.
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And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream
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The only secret people keep is immortality.
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
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If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
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Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?
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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me
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I dwell in possiblities.
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At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.
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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
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Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
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The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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