PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONSaying nothing; sometimes says the most.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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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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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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