The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
EMILY DICKINSONI felt it shelter to speak to you.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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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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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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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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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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 dwell in possibility.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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