Emily Dickinson quotes - page 11

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain But why compare I'm wife stop there. (Emily Dickinson)
Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoes And dim approach But brave at last with Bugles. View quote
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'Tis so much joy 'Tis so much joy If I should fail, what poverty And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw Have gained Yes Hesitated so this side the victory. View quote
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away. View quote
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I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing Eyes I wonder if It weighs like Mine Or has an Easier size. View quote
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. View quote
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In the name of the Bee -- And of the Butterfly -- And of the Breeze -- Amen! View quote
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How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world! View quote
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If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb. View quote
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Drab Habitation of Whom Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb. View quote
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We never know where 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)
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start He carries a circumference In which I have no part. View quote
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Such is the Force of Happiness -- The Least -- can lift a Ton Assisted by its stimulus. View quote
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Assentand you are sane, Demuryou're straightway dangerous, And handled with a Chain.... View quote
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The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. View quote
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior for Doors . View quote
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Angels in the early morning May be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong. View quote
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We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go -- Rank after Rank, with even feet -- And Uniforms of Snow. View quote
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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door. View quote
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Other Courtesies have been -- Other Courtesy may be -- We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry. View quote
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His Labor is a Chant -- His Idleness -- a Tune -- Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! (Emily Dickinson)
There is no Silence in the Earth -- so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. View quote
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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, A pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon A needless life it seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted. View quote
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Beauty is not caused, - it is Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides... View quote
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Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality.We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility -. View quote
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