There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONTo be alive-is Power.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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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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To be alive-is Power.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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