The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
EMILY DICKINSONOld age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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They 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.
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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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To be alive-is Power.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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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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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Hope never stops at all.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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