Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
EMILY DICKINSONTo 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.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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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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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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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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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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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Hope never stops at all.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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