Emily Dickinson Quotes, Light Quotes, Solitude Quotes

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

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To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.

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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

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I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

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God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

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For love is immortality.

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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

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Where thou art, that is home.

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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

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