You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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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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To be alive-is Power.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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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 travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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 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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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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