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.
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That never wrote to me
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'Ti...
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By those who ne'er succeed.
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I've heard the hunter tell;
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'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Kept treading – treading – till...
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I shall not live in vain;
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He never had but one;
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A th...
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EMILY DICKINSON Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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Is wholesome even for the King.
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EMILY DICKINSON There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
EMILY DICKINSON I cannot live with You --/ It would be Life --/ And Life is over there --/ Behind the Shelf.
EMILY DICKINSON Water is taught by thirst.
EMILY DICKINSON To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to...
EMILY DICKINSON I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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And went to sleep.
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As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He s...
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Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
...
EMILY DICKINSON A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.
EMILY DICKINSON Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
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EMILY DICKINSON Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, a...
EMILY DICKINSON Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
EMILY DICKINSON We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like cost...
EMILY DICKINSON We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
EMILY DICKINSON The distance that the dead have gone/ Does not at first appear --/ Their coming back seems possible/...
EMILY DICKINSON If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window ...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON I must go in, the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...
EMILY DICKINSON Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON