Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
EMILY DICKINSONOld age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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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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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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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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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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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