| 45 Famous Quotes by Emily Dickinson
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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
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“If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.”
Dogs Quotes |
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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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“Forever is composed of nows.”
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“Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.”
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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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“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
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“For Love is Immortality.”
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“Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away”
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these”
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“And so upon this wise I prayed,--
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours
But large enough for me.”
Heaven Quotes Source: A Prayer
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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.”
Preaching Quotes Source: Poems (VI, A Service of Song)
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“Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.”
Drinking Quotes Source: Poems (XX)
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“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.”
Success Quotes Source: Success, (ed. 1891)
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“The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.”
Bees Quotes Source: Poems (V)
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“His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!”
Bees Quotes Source: Poems--The Bee (XV)
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“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
Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”
Help Quotes Source: Life
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“A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.”
Spring Quotes Source: No. 1333
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“Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.”
Faith Quotes Source: Poems--Second Series (XXX)
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“There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes--”
Winter Quotes Source: No. 258
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“The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.”
Heart Quotes Source: Poems (IX), (ed. 1891)
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“Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.”
Insanity Quotes Source: Poems (XI (1891 ed.))
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“Belshazzar had a letter,--
He never had but one;
Belshazzar's correspondence
Concluded and begun
In that immortal copy
The conscience of us all
Can read without its glasses
On revelation's wall.”
Post Quotes Source: Poems (XXV, Belshazzar had a Letter), (ed. 1891)
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“Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break agonized and clear.”
Victory Quotes Source: Poems--Success
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“The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,--
And that's the skies!”
Sky Quotes Source: Poems (XIX, second series (ed. 1891))
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