Emily Dickinson Quotes
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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
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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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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
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Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home.
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Pain has an element of blank.
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Love - thou art Veiled - A few - behold thee - Smile - and alter - and prattle - and die - Bliss - were an Oddity - without thee - Nicknamed by God - Eternity -
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul.
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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.
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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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Truth - is as old as God-.
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
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All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.