One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but...

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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

—Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.

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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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

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