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Friends are nations in themselves.

Friends are nations in themselves.

Emily Dickinson
Nations
Emily Dickinson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, Harvard University Press

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Dickinson
Writing, Enthusiasm, Said
?1872 Complete Poems, no.1212 (first published 1894).

I tasted life.

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.201, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

Emily Dickinson
Faith, Sea, Heaven
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.343, Harvard University Press

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Soulmate, Art
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Light, Tonight
Emily Dickinson, “Heart, We Will Forget Him”

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Emily Dickinson
Doors, Soul, Majority
"The Soul selects her own society" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Said, Draught
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Romantic, Romance
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.

Emily Dickinson
Causes, It Is What It Is

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

Emily Dickinson
Music, Sound, World
Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.317, Modern Library

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson
Summer, Nature, Tree
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.334, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

Emily Dickinson
Science, Religion, Would Be

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

Emily Dickinson
Letting Go, Pain, Heart
'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Emily Dickinson
Hammers, Anvils

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Emily Dickinson
Book, Reading, Writing

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

Emily Dickinson
Bees, Pollination, Clovers
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

Emily Dickinson
Atheism, Pagan, Natural

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

Emily Dickinson
Years, Norway, November
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.260, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Emily Dickinson
Educational, Eggs, Bird
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Home is the definition of God.

Emily Dickinson
God, Home, Definitions
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.483, Harvard University Press

Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.

Emily Dickinson
Loss, Moon, Night
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.345, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

I must go in, the fog is rising.

Emily Dickinson
Halloween, Fog, Rising
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.100, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Emily Dickinson
Friendship, Mind, Letters
"The Letters of Emily Dickinson". Book edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

Emily Dickinson
Fall, Heart
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2286, Delphi Classics

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