Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
EMILY DICKINSONThis is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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My friends are my estate.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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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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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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I dwell in possibility.
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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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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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