Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

"I dwell in possibility…"
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"I dwell in possibility…"
Emily Dickinson
"The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own."
Emily Dickinson
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
Emily Dickinson
"Fame is a bee. It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."
Emily Dickinson
"A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said,Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day."
Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"
Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?"
Emily Dickinson Selected Letters
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
Emily Dickinson
"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
"“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”"
Emily Dickinson
"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."
Emily Dickinson
"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
Emily Dickinson
"The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring."
Emily Dickinson
"Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in vain."
Emily Dickinson
"Life is death we're lengthy at"
Emily Dickinson
"They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,Like petals from a rose,When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless grass,No eye could find the place;But God on his repealless list Can summon every face"
Emily Dickinson
"Hunger is a way Of standing outside windows The entering takes away."
Emily Dickinson
"The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on."
Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul..."
Emily Dickinson
"It was not Death, for I stood up,And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon."
Emily Dickinson
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