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.
EMILY DICKINSONPHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Hope never stops at all.
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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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