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!
EMILY DICKINSONWe never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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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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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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I dwell in possibility.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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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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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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