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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
She attended Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
Dickinson lived a mostly reclusive life, rarely leaving her home.
She wrote over 1,800 poems, but only a handful were published in her lifetime.
Dickinson died on May 15, 1886, at the age of 55.
Her poems were posthumously published and have since become some of the most beloved and acclaimed in American literature.

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We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

Emily Dickinson

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality

Emily Dickinson

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Emily Dickinson

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

Emily Dickinson

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.

Emily Dickinson

A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.

Emily Dickinson

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

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