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Emily Dickinson [1830-1886] American

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Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Christian, Didactism, Difficult, Fantasy, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Spiritualism

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life in reclusive isolation.

Life, Famous, Poetry, Age, Death, Hope, Nature, Romantic, Smile, Success, Truth, Alone, Art, Beauty, Chance, Experience, Fear, Friendship, God, Home, Inspirational, Love, Morning, Pet, Sympathy, Time

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.	Hope	101
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.	Romantic	102
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.	Love, Sympathy	103
I dwell in possibility.	Inspirational	104
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.	Poetry	105
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.		106
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.	Life	107
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.	Death	108
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.	Success	109
Fortune befriends the bold.	Success	110
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.	Alone, Nature	111
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.		112
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!	Nature	113
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.		114
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.	Experience	115
Where thou art, that is home.	Art, Home	116
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.	God	117
A wounded deer leaps the highest.		118
Beauty is not caused. It is.	Beauty	119
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.		120
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.		121
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.		122
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.	Morning, Romantic	123
My friends are my estate.	Friendship	124
The brain is wider than the sky.		125
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.	Life	126
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.		201
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.	Pet	202
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.	Death	203
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.		204
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.	Age	205
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.	Life	206
Forever is composed of nows.	Time	207
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.		208
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.	Age	209
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.		210
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.		211
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.	Smile	212
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.	Chance, Smile	213
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.	Life	214
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.	Truth	215
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.	Poetry	216
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.	Fear	217
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.		218
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.		219
I'm nobody, who are you?		220
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.	Famous	221
Dying is a wild night and a new road.		222
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.		223
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.	Hope	224
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.	Poetry	225
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.	Famous	226
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.		301
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.	Truth	302
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.		303
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!		304
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.	Famous	305
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.		306
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.		307
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.		308

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