The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
EMILY DICKINSONHeart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I tasted life.
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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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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!
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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