I have an appetite for silence.
EMILY DICKINSONWonder is not precisely knowing.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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 know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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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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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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