The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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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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I have an appetite for silence.
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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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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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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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I tasted life.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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