PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONFriends are nations in themselves.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no 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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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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To be alive-is Power.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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