I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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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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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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I tasted life.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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