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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
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
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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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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
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Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.
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I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
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These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
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Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
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There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.
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How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.
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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn Men eat of it and die.
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You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.
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Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!
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