The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
EMILY DICKINSONOpen 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.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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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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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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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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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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Fortune befriends the bold.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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