If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONForever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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