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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—
— Emily Dickinson
Tags: poetry, death

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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
Tags: hope
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
Tags: hope
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