Emily Dickinson Quotes, Grief Quotes, Eye Quotes

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

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

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

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The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

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

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

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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

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There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon.

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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

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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!

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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

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How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

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

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

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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

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Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.

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