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Excerpts from Emily Dickinson's poems and letters.

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I dwell in possibility
September 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Several of Nature's People I know and they know me
I feel for them a transport Of Cordiality
September 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I would have liked to wait, but "Sue" smuggled it under my Pillow, and to wake so near it overpowered me – I am glad "Immortality" pleased you.
September 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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.
September 12, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Master – open your life wide, and take me in forever, I will never be tired – I will never be noisy when you want to be still. I will be your best little girl – nobody else will see me, but you – but that is enough – I shall not want any more –
September 10, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Longing is like the Seed
That wrestles in the Ground,
Believing if it intercede
It shall at length be found –

The Hour, and the Zone,
Each Circumstance unknown –
What Constancy must be achieved
Before it see the Sun!
September 6, 2024 at 3:57 PM
A love so big it scares her, rushing among her small heart – pushing aside the blood and leaving her faint and white in the gust's arm –
September 6, 2024 at 10:14 AM
I tell you, it is a Suffering, to have a sea – no care how Blue – between your Soul, and you.
September 5, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Do I repine, is it all murmuring, or am I sad and lone, and cannot, cannot help it? Sometimes when I do feel so, I think it may be wrong, and that God will punish me by taking you away; for he is very kind to let me write to you, and to give me your sweet letters, but my heart wants more.
September 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
September 4, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.
September 4, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Only Woman in the World,
Accept a Julep

Sent to Susan Gilbert, mid 1870s
September 4, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Yesterday is History,
’Tis so far away –
Yesterday is Poetry –
’Tis Philosophy –

Yesterday is mystery –
Where it is Today
While we shrewdly speculate
Flutter both away
September 2, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Do I repine, is it all murmuring, or am I sad and lone, and cannot, cannot help it? Sometimes when I do feel so, I think it may be wrong, and that God will punish me by taking you away; for he is very kind to let me write to you, and to give me your sweet letters, but my heart wants more.
September 2, 2024 at 2:06 PM
But what can I do towards you? – dearer you cannot be, for I love you so already, that it almost breaks my heart – perhaps I can love you anew, every day of my life, every morning and evening – Oh if you will let me, how happy I shall be!
September 2, 2024 at 12:51 AM
You asked how old I was? I made no verse - but one or two - until this winter - Sir -
I had a terror since September - I could tell to none - and so I sing, as the boy does by the burying ground, because I am afraid -

- Emily Dickinson, to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862.
September 1, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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September 1, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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September 1, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Emily Dickinson’s herbarium; a thread.
September 1, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity –

Unable they that love – to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.
September 1, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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September 1, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Find me a house where no one can ever come.
September 1, 2024 at 5:05 PM
But what can I do towards you? – dearer you cannot be, for I love you so already, that it almost breaks my heart – perhaps I can love you anew, every day of my life, every morning and evening – Oh if you will let me, how happy I shall be!
September 1, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Oh Susie, I would nestle close to your warm heart, and never hear the wind blow, or the storm beat, again. Is there any room there for me, or shall I wander away all homeless and alone?
September 1, 2024 at 5:13 PM
What a privilege it is to be so insignificant!
September 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM