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To shut your eyes is to travel.

To shut your eyes is to travel.

Emily Dickinson
Travel, Eye

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

Emily Dickinson
Sun, Opinion, Fitting
Emily Dickinson, “Opinion Is A Flitting Thing”

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Women, Hard Times

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Emily Dickinson
Karma, Stranger
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.478, Harvard University Press

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Relationship, Reading
Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes (2011). “Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Faber & Faber

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Emily Dickinson
Punishment, Merit, Literature

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Emily Dickinson
Believe, Nimble, Hours
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.279, Harvard University Press

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Desire, Proud
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.498, Harvard University Press

How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?

Emily Dickinson
Morning, Clothes, People
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.474, Harvard University Press

Love is like life-merely longer.

Emily Dickinson
Love Is, Love Is Like
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.756, Delphi Classics

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Hope, Bird
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2435, Delphi Classics

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Spiritual, Emotional
"Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

Emily Dickinson
Writing, Heart, And Love
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.77, Harvard University Press

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Emily Dickinson
Men, Names, Giving

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

Emily Dickinson
Tired, Forever, Valentine's Day

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson
Done, Literature, Littles

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Feelings, Literature
'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

Emily Dickinson
Time, Eye, Looks
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.64, First Avenue Editions

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

Emily Dickinson
Years, Forever, Different
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.891, Delphi Classics

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson
Life, June, Names
Emily Dickinson, Isabelle Arsenault (2008). “My Letter to the World and Other Poems”, p.20, Kids Can Press Ltd

I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

Emily Dickinson
Squirrels, Rose, News
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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
Book, Fire, Reading Poetry
Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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
Nature, Home, Gardening
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Emily Dickinson
Longing, Seeds

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