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 DICKINSONNot knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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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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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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