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Emily Dickinson quotes: The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
Emily Dickinson quotes: November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The spirit looks upon the DustThat fastened it so longWith indignation,As a BirdDefrauded of it's Song. The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true
Emily Dickinson quotes: I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson quotes: A Dominie in GrayPut gently up the evening BarsAnd led the flock away A Dominie in Gray
Put gently up the evening Bars
And led the flock away
Emily Dickinson quotes: His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
Emily Dickinson quotes: To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Forever is comprised of nows. Forever is comprised of nows.
Emily Dickinson quotes: To wait an Hour - is longIf Love be just beyondTo wait Eternity - is shortIf Love reward the end - To wait an Hour - is long
If Love be just beyond
To wait Eternity - is short
If Love reward the end -
Emily Dickinson quotes: Our lives are Swiss, so still- so cool Our lives are Swiss, so still- so cool
Emily Dickinson quotes: Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow. Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The Truth never flaunted a sign. The Truth never flaunted a sign.
Emily Dickinson quotes: In snow thou comestThou shalt go with resuming groundThe sweet derision of thx crowAnd Glee's advancing sound In snow thou comest
Thou shalt go with resuming ground
The sweet derision of thx crow
And Glee's advancing sound
Emily Dickinson quotes: Love can do all but raise the Dead. Love can do all but raise the Dead.
Emily Dickinson quotes: I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-. I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
Emily Dickinson quotes: How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul. How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.
Emily Dickinson quotes: It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too. Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.
Emily Dickinson quotes: I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Saying nothing sometimes says the most. Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless. Impossibility, like wine
Exhilarates the man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavoreless.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Eternity, PresumptionThe instant I perceiveThat you who were ExistenceYourself forgot to live Eternity, Presumption
The instant I perceive
That you who were Existence
Yourself forgot to live
Emily Dickinson quotes: Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan. Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
Emily Dickinson quotes: No Life can pompless pass away -The lowliest careerTo the same Pageant wends its wayAs that exalted here - No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here -
Emily Dickinson quotes: Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
Emily Dickinson quotes: Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity. Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.
Emily Dickinson quotes: A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun. A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Death is the common right Of toads and men, - Of earl and midge The privilege. Why swagger then? The gnat's supremacy Is large as thine. Death is the common right Of toads and men, - Of earl and midge The privilege. Why swagger then? The gnat's supremacy Is large as thine.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The days will have more hours while you are gone away. The days will have more hours while you are gone away.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson quotes: My life closed twice before its close My life closed twice before its close
Emily Dickinson quotes: You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies. The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies.
Emily Dickinson quotes: To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer - To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -
Emily Dickinson quotes: The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know. The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
Emily Dickinson quotes: I like a look of agony, because I know it's true I like a look of agony, because I know it's true
Emily Dickinson quotes: 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. 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.
Emily Dickinson quotes: A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
Emily Dickinson quotes: PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to ... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to ... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Beauty is just a light switch away ... 'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is. Beauty is just a light switch away ... 'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-. Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The best vitality Cannot excel decay; The best vitality Cannot excel decay;
Emily Dickinson quotes: The only secret people keep is immortality. The only secret people keep is immortality.
Emily Dickinson quotes: You don't have to be a house to be haunted. You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can. The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Perception of an object costsPrecise the Object's loss - Perception of an object costs
Precise the Object's loss -
Emily Dickinson quotes: The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out- The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out-
Emily Dickinson quotes: XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, - Life! XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, - Life!
Emily Dickinson quotes: If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now
Emily Dickinson quotes: IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity. IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
Emily Dickinson quotes: My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word
Emily Dickinson quotes: All things do go a-courting,In earth, or sea, or air,God hath made nothing singleBut thee in His world so fair. All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.
Emily Dickinson quotes: This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me
Emily Dickinson quotes: Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
Emily Dickinson quotes: Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul
Emily Dickinson quotes: Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door. Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door.
Emily Dickinson quotes: 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. 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.
Emily Dickinson quotes: But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us? But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us?
Emily Dickinson quotes: Those who have not found the heaven below,will fail of it above. Those who have not found the heaven below,
will fail of it above.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one. Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Bring me the sunset in a cup. Bring me the sunset in a cup.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them. Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare Banish Air from Air
Divide Light if you dare
Emily Dickinson quotes: Remorse is memory awake. Remorse is memory awake.
Emily Dickinson quotes: I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away
Emily Dickinson quotes: Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides ... Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides ...
Emily Dickinson quotes: Tell the truth, but tell it slant. Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson quotes: My love for those I love not many not very many, but don't I love them so? My love for those I love
not many
not very many, but don't I love them so?
Emily Dickinson quotes: Common sense is almost as omniscient as God. Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty crowds me till I die.
Emily Dickinson quotes: The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be? The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
Emily Dickinson quotes: So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I'm going, all along. So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I'm going, all along.
Emily Dickinson quotes: A wounded dear leaps the highest A wounded dear leaps the highest
Emily Dickinson quotes: A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is. A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it, Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,
Emily Dickinson quotes: Victory comes lateAnd is held low to freezing lipsToo rapt with frostTo take it Victory comes late
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it
Emily Dickinson quotes: Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none. Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more. Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.
Emily Dickinson quotes: People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun. Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Publication - is the auction of the mind ... Publication - is the auction of the mind ...
Emily Dickinson quotes: Dwell in possibility Dwell in possibility
Emily Dickinson quotes: Nods from the Gilded pointers -Nods from the Seconds slim -Decades of Arrogance betweenThe Dial life -And Him - Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -
Emily Dickinson quotes: After a hundred yearsNobody knows the place,Agony, that enacted there,Motionless as peace. After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides. Each that we lose takes part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.
Emily Dickinson quotes: There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away ... There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away ...
Emily Dickinson quotes: Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily Dickinson quotes: You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night! You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
Emily Dickinson quotes: A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels. A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
Emily Dickinson quotes: Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson quotes: To die before one fears to die may be a boon. To die before one fears to die may be a boon.
Emily Dickinson quotes: To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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