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The Soul selects her own Society— Then—shuts the Door— To her divine Majority— Present no more— Unmoved—she notes the Chariots—pausing— At her low Gate— Unmoved—an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat— I've known her—from an ample nation— Choose One— Then—close the Valves of her attention— Like Stone—
— Emily Dickinson Selected Poems
Tags: poetry

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
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One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —
— Emily Dickinson Selected Poems
Tags: poetry
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. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
— Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Tags: poetry, fame
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
— Emily Dickinson
Tags: love
'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.
— Emily Dickinson
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