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The past is not a package one can lay away.

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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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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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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The hearts that never lean must fall.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
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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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The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.
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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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Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.
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My life closed twice before its close It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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