"... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll."
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Emily Dickinson quotes (page 26 of 26)
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"Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience."
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"Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow."
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"How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity."
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"Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan."
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"If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now"
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"I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low"
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"These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look."
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"Forever is comprised of nows."
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"'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!"
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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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"Noon - is the Hinge of Day-."
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"Love can do all but raise the Dead."
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