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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.
We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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--
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.
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