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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

Emily Dickinson
Bereavement, Might, Eccentric
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

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

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

Emily Dickinson
Children, Lying, Congratulations
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson
God, Spiritual, Memorable
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.317, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Emily Dickinson
Common Sense, Common, Omniscient
Emily Dickinson, Marta L. Werner (1995). “Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing”, p.282, University of Michigan Press

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

Emily Dickinson
Spring, Food, Animal
"The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

Emily Dickinson
Letting Go, Expectations, Piercings
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.330, Harvard University Press

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

Emily Dickinson
Want, Proof, Knows
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.

Emily Dickinson
Hurt
Emily Dickinson, “'Tis Not That Dying Hurts Us So”

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Emily Dickinson
Book, Heart, Pulse
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.756, Harvard University Press

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

Emily Dickinson
Winter, Light, Tunes
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.59, First Avenue Editions

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Emily Dickinson
Courage, Nerves, Deny
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.549, Delphi Classics

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Emily Dickinson
Hope, Heart, Patents
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1672, Delphi Classics

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

Emily Dickinson
Sympathy, Compassion, Console
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Emily Dickinson
Sea, Doe, Harbors
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.

Emily Dickinson
Winter, Dandelions, Infinite
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1368, Harvard University Press

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson
Book, Reading, Land
"There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

Emily Dickinson
Heaven, Lasts, Preaching
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.115, Harvard University Press

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

Emily Dickinson
Women, Heart, Portraits

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

Emily Dickinson
Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgive Me
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

Emily Dickinson
Soul, Suffering, Teeth
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.385, Harvard University Press

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

Emily Dickinson
Faith, Bridges, Scene
c.1864 Complete Poems, no.915 (first published 1929).

I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise

Emily Dickinson
Eye, Doors, Hands
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Emily Dickinson
Sad, Dream, Bread
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Emily Dickinson
Men, Secret, Mind
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1943, Delphi Classics

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