Emily Dickinson quotes - page 9

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea. (Emily Dickinson)
The Soul should always stand ajar. View quote
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength. View quote
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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! View quote
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Faith is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not . View quote
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I like a look of Agony, Because I know it's true Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a Throe. View quote
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind. View quote
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Hope it strange invention A Patent of the Heart In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. View quote
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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown. View quote
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Nature, like us is sometimes caught Without her diadem. View quote
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This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond Invisible, as Music But positive, as Sound. (Emily Dickinson)
To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe. View quote
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What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot The opening of a Door. View quote
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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure. View quote
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Prayer is the little implement Through which men reach Where presence is denied them. View quote
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Nature is what we know Yet have not art to say So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. View quote
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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June and in it are my friends every one of them. View quote
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir. View quote
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'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie That Commerce will continue And Trades as briskly fly. View quote
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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate The Soul cannot be rid -- As easy the secreting her Behind the Eyes of God. View quote
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All things do go a courting, in earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single but thee in His world so fair! (Emily Dickinson)
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend Or the most agonizing Spy An Enemy could send . View quote
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. View quote
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me. View quote
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The Pleading of the Summer -- That other Prank -- of Snow -- That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels -- know. View quote
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Emily Dickinson

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: December 10, 1830
Died: May 15, 1886
Quotes count: 275
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