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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Body Book Cold Ever Fire Know Makes Me Poetry Read Warm Whole

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Any Away Book Lands Like Nor Page Poetry Take Us

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Develop Hard Hard Times Muscles Need Oppression People Psychic Times

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Fame Give Give Me Life Like Living Makes Man Me Name Who

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Argue Hath Immortality Life Love Love Is Thee

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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Always Everywhere God Him Recluse Say Somewhat They Say Think

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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Had Hurry Mother Never Suppose Troubled Whom You

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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.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Barefoot Belonged Better Chase Could Day Did Dog Escape Fame Forsake Her Longest Me Pass Rank She Then Would

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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Affection Became Came Child Children Intimate Mother Never Our She Were While

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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.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Broken Hopes Lest Life Likes Pile Stumble Sure Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 10th, 1830

Died: May 15th, 1886

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