If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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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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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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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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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Hope never stops at all.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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