"Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity."
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Emily Dickinson quotes (page 12 of 26)
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"Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth"
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"I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves."
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"Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn."
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"Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?"
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"The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified."
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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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"Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir."
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"Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it"
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"There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it."
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"In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!"
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"They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady"
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --"
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"MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!"
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"As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity."
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"I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now"
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"Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear."
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"A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim."
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"What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?"
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"For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy."
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