There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONTo travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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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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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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My friends are my estate.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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