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!
EMILY DICKINSONBring me the sunset in a cup.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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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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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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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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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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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I tasted life.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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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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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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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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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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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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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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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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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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