Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
EMILY DICKINSONThe Soul selects her own Society.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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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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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 think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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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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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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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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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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