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This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

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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
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I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.
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To possess is past the instant we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
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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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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
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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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The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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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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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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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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LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
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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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