Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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