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.
EMILY DICKINSONIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Forever is composed of nows.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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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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Where thou art, that is home.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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I dwell in possibility.
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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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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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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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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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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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