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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these


Emily Dickinson

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Were I with thee
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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
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