To be alive-is Power.
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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I tasted life.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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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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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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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 I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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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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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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