I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSONFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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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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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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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 only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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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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To be alive-is Power.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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