“If you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.
If I could see you in a year,
I’d wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.
If only centuries delayed,
I’d count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemens land.
If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I’d toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.
But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time’s uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Our journey had advanced;”
Emily Dickinson
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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
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“For love is immortality.”
Emily Dickinson
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“I could not die with you,”
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“I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–”
Emily Dickinson
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“I’ve seen a Dying Eye”
Emily Dickinson
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“My life closed twice before its close–”
Emily Dickinson
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“Let us go in; the fog is rising.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”
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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“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
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“The abdication of belief makes the behavior small — better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
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“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
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“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency”
Emily Dickinson
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