"A wounded dear leaps the highest"
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Emily Dickinson
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Quotes by Emily Dickinson
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
"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.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"
"Till I loved I never lived."
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
"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."
"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes."
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"My friends are my estate."
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"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."
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."