The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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To be alive-is Power.
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I dwell in possibility.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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Hope never stops at all.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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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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