Emily Dickinson - Heaven Quotes

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Nature is what we see,
The Hill, the Afternoon—
Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee,
Nay—Nature is Heaven. Nature is what we hear,
The Bobolink, the Sea—
Thunder, the Cricket—
Nay,—Nature is Harmony. Nature is what we know
But have no art to say,
So impotent our wisdom is
To Her simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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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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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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

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Immortal is an ample word
When what we need is by,
But when it leaves us for a time,
'T is a necessity. Of heaven above the firmest proof
We fundamental know,
Except for its marauding hand,
It had been heaven below.

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I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.
They weighed me, Dust by Dust —
They balanced Film with Film,
Then handed me my Being's worth—
A single Dram of Heaven!

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I am glad you love the Blossoms so well. I hope you love Birds too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.

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THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, — Her visitor no more.

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Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.

Emily Dickinson

I never spoke with God
Nor visited in heaven—
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the checks were given.

Emily Dickinson

I reason, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that? I reason, we could die:
The best vitality
Cannot excel decay;
But what of that? I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new equation given;
But what of that?

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I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.

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I reckon—when I count at all —
First — Poets — Then the Sun —
Then Summer—Then the Heaven of God —
And then—the List is done —
But, looking back—the First so seems To Comprehend the Whole —
The Others look a needless Show—
So I write — Poets—All —

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God preaches, a noted Clergyman —
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last—
I'm going, all along.

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My life closed twice before its close —
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

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Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

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