The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
EMILY DICKINSONThat it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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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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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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Fortune befriends the bold.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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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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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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I have an appetite for silence.
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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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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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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 tasted life.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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