There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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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.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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I dwell in possibility.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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