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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

The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — 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

Then I will not repine
Knowing that bird of mine
Though flown shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return. — Emily Dickinson

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

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. — Emily 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

Beauty is not caused. It is. — 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

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said. — Emily Dickinson

Which Anguish was the utterest
then
To perish, or to live? — Emily 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

Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!
Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath! — Emily Dickinson

The days will have more hours while you are gone away. — Emily Dickinson

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

Earth is crammed with Heaven. — 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

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

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

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there. — Emily Dickinson

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

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he? — Emily Dickinson

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness. — Joyce Carol Oates

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. — Emily Dickinson

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. — Emily Dickinson

You can stay young as long as you learn. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. — Emily Dickinson

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. — Emily Dickinson

Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong? — Emily Dickinson

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead. — Mal Peet

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out — Emily Dickinson

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too? — Emily Dickinson

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-. — Emily Dickinson

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-. — Emily Dickinson

Such is the force of Happiness
The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus. — Emily Dickinson

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

Perception of an object costs
Precise the Object's loss - — Emily Dickinson

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport". — Harold Bloom

We never know we go, - when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more. — Emily Dickinson

And through a Riddle, at the last--
Sagacity, must go-- — Emily Dickinson

The hearts that never lean must fall. — Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is Immortality. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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