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01c. 1858 AD

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Emily Dickinson / quote

02c. 1858 AD

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

Emily Dickinson / quote

03c. 1858 AD

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.

Emily Dickinson / quote

04c. 1858 AD

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson / quote

05c. 1858 AD

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson / quote