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!
EMILY DICKINSONI am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Hope never stops at all.
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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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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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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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