Quotes by Emily Dickinson

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  • That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
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  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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  • We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
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  • The mere sense of living is joy enough.
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  • They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
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  • To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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  • Because I could not stop for Death
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  • I dwell in possiblities.
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  • Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
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  • A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
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  • My friends are my estate.
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  • Hope is a thing with feathers
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  • Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
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  • Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
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  • Anger as soon as fed is dead-
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  • If I can stop one Heart from breaking
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  • I dwell in possibility...
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  • ...the fog is rising.
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  • I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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  • There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
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