I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
EMILY DICKINSONThe Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Till I loved I never lived.
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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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