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Emily Dickinson Quotes about Memories

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Remorse is memory awake.

Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.119, First Avenue Editions

There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). “Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia”

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.755, Harvard University Press