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The only secret people keep is immortality.

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
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
Emilia Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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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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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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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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Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home
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Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.
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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.
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Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Prayer is the little implement through which men reach where presence is denied them.
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