The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSONHeart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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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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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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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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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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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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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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