There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.


Emily Dickinson

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To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
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EMILY DICKINSON
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When you come home, darling, I shant have your letters, but I shall have yourself, which is more-- o...
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EMILY DICKINSON
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES
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FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that l...
WILLIAM LUCE
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
HAROLD BLOOM
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MARIANA FULGER
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DON ROFF
It's like ripping a page from a book, a page of history in which our ancestors' story is told.
GIUSEPPE PROIETTI
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SAMANTHA SHANNON
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HARRY BROWN
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JEROME CHARYN
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GEORGE FARQUHAR
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
GEORGE FARQUHAR
Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page...
RICHARD MARSH
I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.
JOHN GREEN
Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday’s trash.
SARAH GRIMM
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WOODY ALLEN
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BILLY COLLINS
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE
The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
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open me carefully
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume...
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MAURICE SENDAK
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to ...
ANATOLE BROYARD
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ech...
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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like somethi...
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I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Aye, well, I've got my garden.
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I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
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You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
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Married to the Mob.
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Hello you're with Drudge.
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I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
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throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
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I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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Nothing like a bit of 'The Best of Times' before prancing around on stage.
SPENCER KAYDEN
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over a...
MASON COOLEY
She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple ward...
EMILY DICKINSON
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have al...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.
D. ANTOINETTE FOY
If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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SHANAIRA SELDEN
Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never e...
AKSHAY VASU
The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
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Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
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Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realize you have a lo...
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
GEORGE FARQUHAR
And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love...
H. RIDER HAGGARD
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My book is not a book of dirty stories. There are no shocking revelations. I wasn't looking for any ...
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific...
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What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A...
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They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
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There is literally a 75 page rule book that covers just 'basic' game play.
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
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She handles us very well, kind of like a mother figure. She doesn't take any crap.
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If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address...
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Life is a re-discovery.
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Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.
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Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi...
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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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EMILY DICKINSON
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hope...
EMILY DICKINSON
Our journey has advanced; / Our feet were almost come / To that odd fork in Being's road,/ Eternity ...
EMILY DICKINSON
I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy; ...
EMILY DICKINSON
He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He s...
EMILY DICKINSON
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
...
EMILY DICKINSON
A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.
EMILY DICKINSON
Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
EMILY DICKINSON
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, a...
EMILY DICKINSON
Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
EMILY DICKINSON
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like cost...
EMILY DICKINSON
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
EMILY DICKINSON
The distance that the dead have gone/ Does not at first appear --/ Their coming back seems possible/...
EMILY DICKINSON
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON
Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window ...
EMILY DICKINSON
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON
I must go in, the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON
Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And...
EMILY DICKINSON
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON
That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON
We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON
When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
EMILY DICKINSON