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Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The ...more

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not...more

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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades --How glittering they shone --And every One unbared a NerveOr wantoned with a Bone --She never deemed -- she hu...more

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.

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How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA p...more

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

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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

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A wounded dear leaps the highest

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We do not play on Graves—Because there isn't Room—Besides—it isn't even—it slantsAnd People come—And put a Flower on it—And hang their faces so—We're ...more

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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Life is death we're lengthy at

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that ...more