“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: life
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: great
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For love is immortality.
“For love is immortality.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: love
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: beauty
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Fame is a fickle food upon a
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: food
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To live is so startling it leaves
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: life
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If I read a book and it
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: poetry
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: death
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To love is so startling it leaves
“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: time
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How strange that nature does not knock,
“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: nature
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: love
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