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!
EMILY DICKINSONYou don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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I tasted life.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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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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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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