Emily Dickinson quotes - page 10

Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved The Site of it by Architect Could not again be proved. (Emily Dickinson)
Our journey had advanced Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term. View quote
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Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity. View quote
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The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. View quote
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Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too. View quote
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Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by But when it leaves us for a time 'Tis a necessity. View quote
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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then it knocks at Will That is the manufacturing spot. View quote
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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year. View quote
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The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan -- Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. View quote
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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. View quote
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Nods from the Gilded pointers -- Nods from the Seconds slim -- Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life -- And Him. (Emily Dickinson)
No Life can pompless pass away -- The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here. View quote
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Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind -- His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind. View quote
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There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul. View quote
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If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by, With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. View quote
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He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! View quote
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I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away... View quote
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter. View quote
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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better. (Emily Dickinson)
I'm nobody, who are you? View quote
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To possess, is past the instant We achieve the Joy -- Immortality contented Were Anomaly. View quote
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By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted -- Which blossom in the dark. View quote
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Spring is the Period Express from God. View quote
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