"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
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Emily Dickinson
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Quotes by Emily Dickinson
"Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
"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."
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
"I dwell in possibility."
"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."
"Forever is composed of nows."
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
"My friends are my estate."
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
"Faith—is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not—Too slender for the eyeIt bears the Soul as boldAs it were rocked in SteelWith Arms of Steel at either side—It joins—behind the VeilTo what, could We presumeThe Bridge would cease to beTo Our far, vacillating FeetA first Necessity."
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--"
"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."
"A wounded dear leaps the highest"