Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSONWe turn not older with years but newer every day.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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I dwell in possibility.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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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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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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