PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONWhenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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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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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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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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I dwell in possibility.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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To be alive-is Power.
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