Emily Dickinson Quotes
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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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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If Aims impel these Astral OnesThe ones allowed to knowKnow that which makes them as forgotAs Dawn forgets them - now
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God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.
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Spring is the Period Express from God.
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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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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 precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.
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Home is the definition of God.
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
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September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
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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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I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
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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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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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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.