Emily Dickinson on literature
“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Where thou art, that is home.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Forever is composed of nows.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The past is not a package one can lay away.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson My friends are my estate.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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