If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONWe never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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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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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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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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