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Publication - is the auction of the mind.

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
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The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.
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And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream
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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
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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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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 brain is wider than the sky.
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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
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Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.
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The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.
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When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.
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Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
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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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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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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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