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I borrow bits from everyone. — Janice Dickinson

Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high. — John Green

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear! — Emily Dickinson

A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind. — Emily Dickinson

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. — Emily Dickinson

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best. — Emily Dickinson

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dickinson

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party. — Amy Dickinson

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that. — Gardner Dickinson

The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring. — Emily Dickinson

Bind me-I still can sing-
Banish-my mandolin
Strikes true within-
Slay-and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise-
Still thine. — Emily Dickinson

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists. — Bruce Dickinson

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-. — Emily Dickinson

Impossibility, like wine
Exhilarates the man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavoreless. — Emily Dickinson

If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose. — Emily Dickinson

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. — Emily Dickinson

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God. — Emily Dickinson

This world is not conclusion.
A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound — Emily Dickinson

The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. — Emily Dickinson

To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer - — Emily Dickinson

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee - — Emily Dickinson

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. — Emily Dickinson

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement. — Amy Dickinson

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

Action is redemption. — Emily Dickinson

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time. — Amy Dickinson

How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door ... — Emily Dickinson

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan. — Emily Dickinson

The second half of joy is shorter than the first — Emily Dickinson

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love. — Amy Dickinson

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets. — Arlene Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. — Emily Dickinson

I see thee better in the dark
I do not need a light. — Emily Dickinson

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver. — Arlene Dickinson

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it. — Janice Dickinson

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded. — Sally Mann

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. — Emily Dickinson

The past is not a package one can lay away. — Emily Dickinson

But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us? — Emily Dickinson

What need of Day -
To Those whose Dark - hath so - surpassing Sun -
It deem it be - Continually -
At the Meridian? — Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. — Emily Dickinson

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'. — Amy Dickinson

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. — Harold Bloom

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. — Emily Dickinson

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music. — Bruce Dickinson

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. — Bruce Dickinson

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun. — Bruce Dickinson

I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around. — Emily Dickinson

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better. — Amy Dickinson

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. — Emily Dickinson

To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe. — Emily Dickinson

This is the truth. You will know because it hurts. — Seth Dickinson

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run. — Emily Dickinson

I practice Dying--every night--
But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill. — Alan W. Powers

There are people you know all your life who never really make a difference to who you are; others arrive for a short time and change everything. — Miranda Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. — Emily Dickinson

Love is Immortality. — Emily Dickinson

Fame is a bee.
It has a song -
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing. — Emily Dickinson

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime. — Emily Dickinson

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off. — Bruce Dickinson

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything. — Janice Dickinson

Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it. — Janice Dickinson

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength. — Emily Dickinson

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity. — Amy Dickinson

But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships. — Amy Dickinson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson

Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry. — Emily Dickinson

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am. — Janice Dickinson

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. — Bruce Dickinson

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit. — Bruce Dickinson

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another. — Amy Dickinson

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. — Janice Dickinson

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself. — Emily Dickinson

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it. — Emily Dickinson

Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection. — Amy Dickinson

We all have moments with the dust, but the dew is given. — Emily Dickinson

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year. — Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. — Janice Dickinson

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care — Emily Dickinson

Those who have not found the heaven below,
will fail of it above. — Emily Dickinson

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener. — Emily Dickinson

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. — Janice Dickinson

Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt. — Peter Dickinson

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - — Emily Dickinson

If the Masquerade could not be stopped by spear or treaty, she would change it from within. — Seth Dickinson

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? — Emily Dickinson

It is finished, is never said of us — Emily Dickinson

Home is so far from home. — Emily Dickinson

Love is like life-merely longer. — Emily Dickinson

Bring me the sunset in a cup. — Emily Dickinson

Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale. — Seth Dickinson

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. — Emily Dickinson

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - . — Emily Dickinson