In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.


Emily Giffin

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EMILY DICKINSON
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From ...
EMILY DICKINSON
God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven...
EMILY DICKINSON
And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON
"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON
If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON
The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- ...
EMILY DICKINSON
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON
Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear...
EMILY DICKINSON
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ...
EMILY POST
For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING
I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT