"A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the……" — Emily Dickinson
"A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim."
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Emily Dickinson
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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of…
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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating…
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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