Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
EMILY DICKINSONIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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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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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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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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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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I tasted life.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON