Emily Dickinson on love
“Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.”
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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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Friends are nations in themselves.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I tasted life.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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