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Emily Dickinson Quotes

Short Bio:

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on the 10th of December 1830. She was one of the greatest American poets of all time. Her poems were original and unique to her era.

More Notable Quotes:

"I dwell in possibility.
"Forever is composed of nows.
"The brain is wider than the sky.
"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
"I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
"In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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