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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: Letter to Abiah Root (29 January 1850)

“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859), letter #193 of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward

“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870), letter #342a of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward, page 474

“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward. Quoted in "The Conscious Self in Emily Dickinson's Poetry" by Charles A. Anderson: American Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Nov. 1959), pp. 290-308.

“Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires a sorest need.Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of VictoryAs he defeated — dying — On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 67: Success is counted sweetest

“"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see — But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 185: "Faith" is a fine invention

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — And sore must be the storm — That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 254: "Hope" is the thing with feathers —

“I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — Too?”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?

“How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one's name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog!”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?; In some editions "June" has been altered to "day".

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“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church — I keep it, staying at Home— With a Bobolink for a Chorister — And an Orchard, for a Dome—”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 324: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —

“God preaches, a noted Clergyman — And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last— I’m going, all along.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 324: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —

“This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me — The simple News that Nature told — With tender MajestyHer Message is committed To Hands I cannot see — For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen — Judge tenderly — of Me”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 441: This is my letter to the World

“I died for Beauty — but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb, When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room — He questioned softly "Why I failed"? "For Beauty," I replied. "And I — for Truth, — Themself are One — We Brethren, are", He said —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 449: I died for Beauty —

“Dreams — are well — but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn — If One wake at Midnight — better — Dreaming — of the Dawn —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 450: Dreams — are well — but Waking's better

“Love — thou art Veiled — A few — behold thee — Smile — and alter — and prattle — and die — Bliss — were an Oddity — without thee — Nicknamed by God — Eternity —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 453: Love — thou art high —

“I heard a Fly buzz — when I died — The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air — Between the Heaves of Storm —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 465: I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —

“Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And Immortality.We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 712: Because I could not stop for Death —

“Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity —”

— Emily Dickinson

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Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 712: Because I could not stop for Death —

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“We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer — Till it an Antique fashion shows — Like Costumes Grandsires wore.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Quote source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960):
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 887: We outgrow love, like other things

“A Grave — is a restricted Breadth — Yet ampler than the Sun — And all the Seas He populates And lands he looks uponTo Him who on its small Repose Bestows a single Friend — Circumference without Relief — Or Estimate — or End”

— Emily Dickinson

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Edited by Thomas H. Johnson 943: A Coffin — is a small Domain,

“To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights, What must the Midnights — be!”

— Emily Dickinson

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“A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came, A Wisdom, without Face, or Name, A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home And so the Night became.”

— Emily Dickinson

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“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —”

— Emily Dickinson

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“Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done — Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none —Balked in the vastest instance But to renew — Felled but by one assassin — Prosperity —”

— Emily Dickinson

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“Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone — A Whip so small you could not see it I've knownTo lash the Magic Creature Till it fell, Yet that Whip's Name Too noble then to tell.Magnanimous as Bird By Boy descried — Singing unto the Stone Of which it died —Shame need not crouch In such an Earth as Ours — Shame — stand erect — The Universe is yours.”

— Emily Dickinson

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“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”

— Emily Dickinson

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“More than the Grave is closed to me — The Grave and that Eternity To which the Grave adheres — I cling to nowhere till I fall — The Crash of nothing, yet of all — How similar appears —”

— Emily Dickinson

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