Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSONUntil you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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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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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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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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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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