To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSONThe Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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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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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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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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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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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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I tasted life.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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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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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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