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Friends are nations in themselves.

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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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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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Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -
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Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --
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The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
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Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!
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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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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes
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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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I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
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I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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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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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until
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They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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