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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2022/">Quotes by <em>Dickinson, Emily</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded with Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets of the 19th century. Her life has inspired numerous biographers and voluminous speculation; mostly about her sexuality, of which little is definitively known. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily · Adversity · 11 fans >>
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily · Dissent · 2 fans >>
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"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life!"

Dickinson, Emily · Doctors · 1 fans >>
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"Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir."

Dickinson, Emily · Editing and Editors · 1 fans >>
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"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

Dickinson, Emily · Fame · 2 fans >>
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"The fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily · Famous Last Words · 4 fans >>
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"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."

Dickinson, Emily · Farewells · 2 fans >>
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily · Heart · 4 fans >>
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"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved."

Dickinson, Emily · Heaven · 2 fans >>
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"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?"

Dickinson, Emily · Home · 2 fans >>
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