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Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at all.”
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,And...
“To see her is a picture—To hear her is a tune—To know her an IntemperanceAs innocent as June—To know her not—Affliction...
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“A Word is DeadA word is deadWhen it is said,Some say.I say it justBegins to liveThat day.”
“How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;W...
“A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.”
“He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust...
“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 feel physically as...
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
“There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a PageOf prancing Poetry –This Traverse may t...
“If I can stop one Heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can Ease one life the Aching,Or cool one PainOr hel...
“I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!They ’d banish us, you know.How drear...
“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins ...
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
emily dickinson
“I died for beauty, but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He quest...