Emily Dickinson Quotes, Life Quotes, Writing Quotes

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

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I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

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A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

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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!

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

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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!

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

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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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The Soul selects her own Society.

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

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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.

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