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Emily Dickinson Quotes about Literature

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

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

Emily Dickinson

Punishment, Merit, Literature

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)

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

Tragedy, Literature, Bees

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

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

Emily Dickinson

Home, Literature, Domes

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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