Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
EMILY DICKINSONI am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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My friends are my estate.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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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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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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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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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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