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Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
“Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.”
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.”
“Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --”
“My business is circumference.”
“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”
“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”
“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”
“Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”
“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”
“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”
“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”
“in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.”
“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”
“Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.”
“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.”
“I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.”
“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”