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 DICKINSONThe things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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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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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 poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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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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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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