Emily Dickinson Quotes

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You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

Emily Dickinson
No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here -

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What once was "Heaven" is "Zenith" now — Where I proposed to go When Time's brief masquerade was done Is mapped, and charted too.

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Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -

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By every broom and Bridget Throughout a Christian land. Neglected son of genius, I take thee by the hand.

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I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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I climb the "Hill of Science," I view the landscape o'er; such transcendental prospects, I ne'er beheld before!

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I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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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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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...

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An altered look about the hills;
A Tyrian light the village fills;
A wider sunrise in the dawn;
A deeper twilight on the lawn;
A print of a vermilion foot;
A purple finger on the slope;
A flippant fly upon the pane;
A spider at his trade again;
An added strut in chanticleer;
A flower expected everywhere...

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Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

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The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, -
Or the most agonizing Spy -
An Enemy - could send -

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It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still.

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In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

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March is the month of expectation,
The things we do not know,
The Persons of Prognostication
Are coming now.
We try to sham becoming firmness,
But pompous joy
Betrays us, as his first betrothal
Betrays a boy.

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

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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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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.

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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

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Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

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They say that He can heal; But medicine posthumous Is unavailable.

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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

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Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

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Need the wiser tell? If the Savants "Classify" them, It is just as well!

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I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

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