Emily Dickinson Quotes

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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Emily Dickinson
I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

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

Emily Dickinson
There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

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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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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

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We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go
Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

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Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

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Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

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The last of Summer is Delight -
Deterred by Retrospect.
'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
Enchantment's Syndicate.

To meet it - nameless as it is -
Without celestial Mail -
Audacious as without a Knock
To walk within the Veil.

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It knew no Medicine — It was not Sickness — then — Nor any need of Surgery — And therefore — 'twas not Pain —

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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

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The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

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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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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Emily Dickinson
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

Emily Dickinson
As Summer into Autumn slips
And yet we sooner say
"The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
We turn the sun away,

And almost count it an Affront
The presence to concede
Of one however lovely, not
The one that we have loved -

So we evade the charge of Years
On one attempting shy
The Circumvention of the Shaft
Of Life's Declivity.

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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

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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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Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,

But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.

Emily Dickinson
Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

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Answer July-
Where is the Bee-
Where is the Blush-
Where is the Hay?

Ah, said July-
Where is the Seed-
Where is the Bud-
Where is the May-
Answer Thee-Me-

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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

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Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect Where it began, or if there were A day when it was not.

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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

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

Emily Dickinson