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

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Leaves Little Little Time Live Startling Time

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Feel Head Know Off Physically Poetry Taken Top Were I Feel

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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

Topics: Alone Bee Bees Clover Few Make Prairie Takes Will

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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Because Beings Better Dogs Human Human Beings Know Tell Than

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Fame Fickle Food Plate Shifting

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Breath Creation Death Initial Life Love Love Is

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The brain is wider than the sky.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Brain Sky Than Wider

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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.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Head Just Me Might Mine Necessity Need Precisely Sight Small Smile

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I'm nobody, who are you?

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Nobody Who You

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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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Bush Charms Else Fear Forget Friends Give God Hand He Heaven Him Lest No Friends Occasionally Us Wary Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 10th, 1830

Died: May 15th, 1886

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