Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Love is like life-merely longer.
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
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This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
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Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.
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I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.
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You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
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To be alive──is Power.
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Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise
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Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.
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When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
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I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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Remorse is memory awake.
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Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.