Emily Dickinson on literature
“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Friends are nations in themselves.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I tasted life.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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