Emily Dickinson Quotes

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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

Emily Dickinson
Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

Emily Dickinson
That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

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When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he...

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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

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Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.

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Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.

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The Life we have is very great.
The Life that we shall see
Surpasses it, we know, because
It is Infinity,
But when all Space has been beheld
And all Dominion shown
The smallest Human Heart's extent
Reduces it to none.

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

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I pull a flower from the woods, — A monster with a glass Computes the Stamens in a breath, And has her in a class.

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Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

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At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

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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 if seemed to me
Until a little bird
As to a hospitality
Advanced and breakfasted.

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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

Emily Dickinson
Two Seasons, it is said, exist-
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost-

May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer?

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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

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The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small-
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.

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Fire exists the first in light, And then consolidates — Only the chemist can disclose Into what carbonates.

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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home

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September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

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A science — so the Savants say, "Comparative Anatomy" — By which a single bone — Is made a secret to unfold Of some rare tenant of the mold, Else perished in the stone —

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Nature — the Gentlest Mother is, Impatient of no Child — The feeblest — or the waywardest — Her Admonition mild —

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Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace,
As Guest, that would be gone

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Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

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The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

Emily Dickinson