PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONWhenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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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.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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I dwell in possibility.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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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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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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