Emily Dickinson quotes - page 4

Inebriate of Air am I And Debauchee of Dew Reeling through endless summer days From inns of Molten Blue. (Emily Dickinson)
Tell the truth, but tell it slant. View quote
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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. View quote
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The blunder is to estimate,- "Eternity is Then,” We say, as of a station. Meanwhile he is so near, He joins me in my ramble, Divides abode with me, No friend have I that so persists As this Eternity. View quote
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A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came, A Wisdom, without Face, or Name, A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home And so the Night became. View quote
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This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see - For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen - Judge tenderly - of Me. View quote
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If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them - now. View quote
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Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass. View quote
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Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love. View quote
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We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. View quote
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That Such have died enable Us The tranquiller to die -- That Such have lived, Certificate for Immortality. (Emily Dickinson)
Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. View quote
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie True Poems flee. View quote
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Since then 'tis centuries and yet Feels shorter than the DAY I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity. View quote
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How dreary to be somebody How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog. View quote
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Let us go in the fog is rising. View quote
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The Sun -- just touched the Morning -- The Morning -- Happy thing -- Supposed that He had come to dwell -- And Life would all be Spring! View quote
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We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king. View quote
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. View quote
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Dreams - are well - but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn - If One wake at Midnight - better - Dreaming - of the Dawn. View quote
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all! (Emily Dickinson)
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun! View quote
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They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings. View quote
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,- The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own. View quote
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I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me! View quote
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