I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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To be alive-is Power.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I dwell in possibility.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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