Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
EMILY DICKINSONI am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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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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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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I tasted life.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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My friends are my estate.
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