Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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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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Where thou art, that is home.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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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.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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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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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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I’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!
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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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 am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
EMILY DICKINSON