Emily Dickinson Poems
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Because I could not stop for Death
by Emily Dickinson
“Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;”
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Hope is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,”
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I heard a Fly buzz when I died
by Emily Dickinson
“I heard a Fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form”
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I felt a funeral in my brain
by Emily Dickinson
“I felt a funeral in my brain And mourners, to and fro,”
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Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;
by Emily Dickinson
Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
– Emily Dickinson
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
– Emily Dickinson
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Forever is composed of nows.
– Emily Dickinson
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
– Emily Dickinson
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
– Emily Dickinson
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
– Emily Dickinson
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
– Emily Dickinson
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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
– Emily Dickinson
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
– Emily Dickinson
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
– Emily Dickinson
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Fortune befriends the bold.
– Emily Dickinson
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
– Emily Dickinson
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
– Emily Dickinson
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The brain is wider than the sky.
– Emily Dickinson
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
– Emily Dickinson
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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
– Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest (112)
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
– Emily Dickinson
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I dwell in possibility.
– Emily Dickinson
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
– Emily Dickinson
He ate and drank the precious words
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
– Emily Dickinson
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References
- National Historic Landmark: Emily Dickinson House
- Emily Dickinson Museum