Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSONI’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!
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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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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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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