Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Friends are nations in themselves.
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The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -
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I'll tell you how the Sun rose.
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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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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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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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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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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 am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
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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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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.
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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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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."
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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
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To be alive──is Power.
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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
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The Truth never flaunted a sign.
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The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.
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Nothing is the force that renovates the World.
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.