Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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Hope never stops at all.
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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