"I started early, took my dog, And visited……" — Emily Dickinson
"I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me"
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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson has 362 quotes on this site.
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control…
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
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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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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some…
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a…
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I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
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Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how -…
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my…
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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a…
— Nolan Bushnell
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of…
— Sam Abell
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Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement…
— Justin Guarini
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
— Ray Bradbury
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We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more…
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Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
— Peter Murphy
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People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work…
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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