Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
EMILY DICKINSONOpinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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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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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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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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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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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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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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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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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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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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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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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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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