Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
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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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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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Hope is a thing with feathers.
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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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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.
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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone
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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!
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Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
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The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
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How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a DayThe Owner passed - identified -And carried Me away -And now We roam in Sovereign Woods -And now We hunt the Doe -And every time I speak for Him -The Mountains straight reply -
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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!
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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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Publication - is the auction of the mind.
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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.