The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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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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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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To be alive-is Power.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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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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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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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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