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Emily Dickinson

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Quotes by Emily Dickinson

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
"How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity."
"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes."
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"She dealt her pretty words like Blades --How glittering they shone --And every One unbared a NerveOr wantoned with a Bone --She never deemed -- she hurt --That -- is not Steel's Affair --A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --How ill the Creatures bear --To Ache is human -- not polite --The Film upon the eyeMortality's old Custom --Just locking up -- to Die."
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."