That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSONI’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!
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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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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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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