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Emily Dickinson Quotes

Read These Emily Dickinson Quotes to Get to Love the Poetess

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Dickinson can describe her feelings like no one else can. Her facility with words has always left me marveling at her composition.

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

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

Calmness
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Courage
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.

Friendship
My friends are my estate.

Communication
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Birthday
We turn not older with years but newer every day.

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