PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONThere’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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