Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.
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Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -I keep it, staying at Home-With a Bobolink for a Chorister -And an Orchard, for a Dome-
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Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God’s residence is next to mine, His furniture is love.
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I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.
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Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul.