Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
EMILY DICKINSONThe Soul selects her own Society.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Hope never stops at all.
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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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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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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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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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