PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONThe poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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To be alive-is Power.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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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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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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