Emily Dickinson Quotes

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• Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers… Bee
• I imagine therefore I belong and am free. Belong
• If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying… Attention
• Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. Either Side
• 'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere! Arcturus
• To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence. Alive
• Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides... Abides
• Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh… Autumn
• When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground. All
• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. Hurry
• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? Catacomb
• We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg. Bird
• Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong? Among
• This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a… All
• I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. Easier
• To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is… All
• Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at… Approach
• I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me. Death
• Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out Action
• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. Achieve

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