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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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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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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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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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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I tasted life.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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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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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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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 imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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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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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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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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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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