Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.
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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.
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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -
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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,-you ’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.
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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.