“There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away,

Nor any coursers like a page

Of prancing poetry.” – Emily Dickinson

“They say that ‘time assuages,’–

Time never did assuage;

An actual suffering strengthens,

As sinews do, with age.” – Emily Dickinson

“This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me –

The simple News that Nature told –

With tender Majesty” – Emily Dickinson

“My Faith is larger than the Hills –

So when the Hills decay –

My Faith must take the Purple Wheel

To show the Sun the way –” – Emily Dickinson

“Fame is a fickle food

Upon a shifting plate

Whose table once a

Guest but not

The second time is set.” – Emily Dickinson

“The sky is low, the clouds are mean,

A travelling flake of snow

Across a barn or through a rut

Debates if it will go.” – Emily Dickinson

“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –

That perches in the soul –

And sings the tune without the words –

And never stops – at all –” – Emily Dickinson

“I’m nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody too?

Then there’s a pair of us – don’t tell!

They’d banish us; you know!” – Emily Dickinson

“If I can stop one Heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain

If I can ease one Life the Aching,

Or cool one Pain,

Or help one fainting Robin

Unto his Nest again,

I shall not live in vain.” – Emily Dickinson

“If you were coming in the Fall,

I’d brush the Summer by

With half a smile, and half a spurn,

As Housewives do, a Fly.” – Emily Dickinson

“I felt a cleaving in my mind

As if my brain had split;

I tried to match it, seam by seam,

But could not make them fit.” – Emily Dickinson

“I had no time to Hate – 

Because

The Grave would hinder me – l 

And Life was not so

Ample I

Could finish—Enmity” – Emily Dickinson

“How happy is the little Stone

That rambles in the Road alone,

And doesn’t care about Careers

And Exigencies never fears –” – Emily Dickinson

“Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne’er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.” – Emily Dickinson

“Time is a Test of Trouble – 

But not a Remedy –

If such it prove, it prove too

There was no Malady –” – Emily Dickinson

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