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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Emilia Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Existence
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Overpowered
Slew
Mushroom
Mushrooms

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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
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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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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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PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.
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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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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy I said: 'T will keep. I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
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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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The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!
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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.
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