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This book presents a comprehensive selection of letters written by Emily Dickinson, offering insights into her personal life, thoughts, and the development of her poetry.
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“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
“God, keep me from what they call 'households,'”
“Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.”
“Home is the definition of God.”
“The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.”
“The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.”
“A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods”
“We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.”
“How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.”
“Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.”
“The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.”
“Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.”
“Friends are nations in themselves.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”
“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”
“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”