Emily Dickinson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Emily Dickinson:
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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My friends are my estate.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I'm nobody, who are you?
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
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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 then. My barefoot rank is better.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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I dwell in possibility.
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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