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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Break
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Emily Dickinson
Play, Soul, Easy
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.499, Delphi Classics

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Emily Dickinson
Sweet, Reverie, Has Beens
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.307, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson
Song, Idols, Wings
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.635, Harvard University Press

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson
Sympathy, Pain, Kindness
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Spiritual, Night
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.463, Harvard University Press

To be alive──is Power.

Emily Dickinson
Alive

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Emily Dickinson
Compassion, Majesty, World
"This is my letter to the world" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

I dwell in possibilities .

Emily Dickinson
Healing, Possibility

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Life, Wedding
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Encouragement, Heaven
"My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

Emily Dickinson
Light, Solitude, Tears

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Emily Dickinson
Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity, Possibility
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Relationship, Smile
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.275, Courier Corporation

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Friendship, Family
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

Emily Dickinson

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

Emily Dickinson
Knowing, Wonder
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.455, Harvard University Press

I dwell in possiblities.

Emily Dickinson

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

Emily Dickinson
Long, Secret, Life Is
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.482, Harvard University Press

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

Emily Dickinson
Bullying, Voice, Silence

To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

Emily Dickinson
May, Boon, Dies
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

The Soul should always stand ajar.

Emily Dickinson
Soul, Experience, Ecstatic Love
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Emily Dickinson
Silence, Taste, Appetite
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Cute, Good Morning
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.872, Harvard University Press

Till I loved I never lived.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Romantic, Romance
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.329, Harvard University Press

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