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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Judge tenderly of me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Friends are nations in themselves.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I tasted life.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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The sunset on the beach, calls to her, opens your aura, and releases the power of peace in the air.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette Live for sunrises and sunsets for they will give you no stress.
Saloni VermaSaloni Verma Hold on/ not because life will get any better/ but it’s 10 mins to sunset/ and I was wondering if we could go for ice creams afterwards
VesmirVesmir Sitting watching the sunset she was thinking about him the way she always did when she saw something beautiful.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry Whiskey lips and sunset trips to places we always spoke of, wind in hair we had no care for what tomorrow was made of.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia If i could spin around your axis just one last time, That sunrise and sunset would be enough of a forever to satisfy me.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia I’ll adore you instead of sunsets if you’re with me. I’ll see it’s shade drowning in your deep eyes.
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