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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
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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -
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Love is like life-merely longer.
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
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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.
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Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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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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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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If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.
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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
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