Emily Dickinson Quotes
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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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 charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
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Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare
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A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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Pain has an element of blank.
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Action is redemption.
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul.
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God, keep me from what they call 'households'.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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It is finished, is never said of us.
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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.
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Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
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Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
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Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!