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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
Emilia Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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Nothing
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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
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I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
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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 to shine.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
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Truth - is as old as God-.
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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise
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When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.
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Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me?
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God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
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