Emily Dickinson Quotes

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

Emily Dickinson

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• You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

  

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  • Drawer