There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONIt is easy to work when the soul is at play.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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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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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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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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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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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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 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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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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