I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
EMILY DICKINSONI hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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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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 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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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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 Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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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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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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