Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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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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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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I tasted life.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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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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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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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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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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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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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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