The Soul selects her own Society.
EMILY DICKINSONHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and 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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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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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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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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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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