Emily Dickinson - Love Quotes

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

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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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I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

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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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Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.

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That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove.

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Love — thou art Veiled —
A few — behold thee —
Smile — and alter — and prattle — and die —
Bliss — were an Oddity — without thee —
Nicknamed by God —
Eternity —

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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

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We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

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It is cold tonight, but the thought of you so warm, that I sit by it as a fireside, and am never cold any more. I love to write to you — it gives my heart a holiday and sets the bells to ringing.

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This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me —
The simple News that Nature told —
With tender Majesty Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see —
For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen —
Judge tenderly — of Me

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The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon Earth—
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity.

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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

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Dying! To be afraid of thee One must to thine Artillery Have left exposed a Friend — Than thine old Arrow is a Shot Delivered straighter to the Heart The leaving Love behind.

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Love is anterior to life—
Posterior to death—
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of earth.

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My love for those I love — not many — not very many, but don't I love them so?

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I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner's lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

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Unable are the loved to die,
For love is immortality,
Nay, it is deity.

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To wait an Hour — is long —
If Love be just beyond —
To wait Eternity — is short—
If Love reward the end —.

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Love's stricken "why"
Is all that love can speak—
Built of but just a syllable The hugest hearts that break.

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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

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I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them 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.

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