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Emily Dickinson quotes (34) I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody Too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise you know! Emily Dickinson Category: Privacy If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson Category: Poetry Anger as soon as fed is dead Tis starving makes it fat. Emily Dickinson Category: Anger Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit Life! Emily Dickinson Category: Medicine Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie That Commerce will continue And Trades as briskly fly. Emily Dickinson Category: Stocks To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Category: Live How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog. Emily Dickinson Category: Administration We turn not older with years but newer every day. Emily Dickinson Category: Age Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson Category: Beauty Parting is all we know of heaven And all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson Category: Death Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson Category: False My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson Category: Friendship Luck is not chance Its toil Fortunes expensive smile Is earned. Emily Dickinson Category: Fortune Theres a certain slant of light On winter afternoons That oppresses like the weight Of Cathedral tunes. Emily Dickinson Category: Seasons Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson Category: Hope The Possibles slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. Emily Dickinson Category: Illusions A word is dead When it is said; Some say. I say It just began to live that day. Emily Dickinson Category: Word We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise. And then if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies. Emily Dickinson Category: Theology Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson Category: Joy We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg. Emily Dickinson Category: Heart If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain. Emily Dickinson Category: Life They say God is everywhere and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson Category: God That love is all there is is all we know of love. Emily Dickinson Category: Love To make a prairie It takes clover and one bee One clover and a bee and reverie. The reverie alone will do If bees are few. Emily Dickinson Category: Prairie The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson Category: Experience Success is counted sweetest by those who neer succeed. To comprehend a nectar requires sorest need. Emily Dickinson Category: Success Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it staying at Home With a bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard for a Dome. Emily Dickinson Category: Home For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. Emily Dickinson Category: Happiness Nature is what we know Yet have not art to say So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. Emily Dickinson Category: Nature The brain is wider than the sky; For put them side by side The one the other will contain with ease And you beside. Emily Dickinson Category: Brain You can stay young as long as you learn. Emily Dickinson Category: Youth 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. Emily Dickinson Category: Book This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond Invisible as Music But positive as Sound. Emily Dickinson Category: Unsorted Much Madness is divinest Sense To a discerning Eye Much Sense the starkest Madness Emily Dickinson Category: Depressed |
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