Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONThey 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.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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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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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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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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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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