The past is not a package one can lay away.
EMILY DICKINSONThe poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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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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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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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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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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