Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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To be alive-is Power.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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I tasted life.
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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.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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