This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
EMILY DICKINSONHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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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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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Hope never stops at all.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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To be alive-is Power.
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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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