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My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word— The Stars that stated come to Town Esteemed Me never rude Although to their Celestial Call I failed to make reply— My constant—reverential Face Sufficient Courtesy.


Emily Dickinson

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EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON Beauty is not caused. It is.
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EMILY DICKINSON Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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EMILY DICKINSON This is the Hour of Lead --
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EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
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EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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EMILY DICKINSON The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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EMILY DICKINSON Fortune befriends the bold.
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EMILY DICKINSON If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the...
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EMILY DICKINSON The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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EMILY DICKINSON A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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EMILY DICKINSON Is wholesome even for the King.
EMILY DICKINSON There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
EMILY DICKINSON I cannot live with You --/ It would be Life --/ And Life is over there --/ Behind the Shelf.
EMILY DICKINSON Water is taught by thirst.
EMILY DICKINSON To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn.
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EMILY DICKINSON God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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EMILY DICKINSON Pain - has an Element of Blank -/ It cannot recollect/ When it begun - or if there were/ A time when...
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The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to...
EMILY DICKINSON I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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