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I tasted life.

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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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As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say The Summer than the Autumn, lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.
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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.
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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
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March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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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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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
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The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.
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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
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All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
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Love is like life-merely longer.
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And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream
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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Speech is one symptom of affection and silence one the perfect communication is heard of none.
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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious
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