I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
EMILY DICKINSONLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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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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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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