Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.
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There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.
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Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
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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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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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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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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe
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The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes
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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.
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These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
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Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.
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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!
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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.
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What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star
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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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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?