Quote by Emily Dickinson
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on an

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. – Emily Dickinson

Other quotes by Emily Dickinson

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. – Emily Dickinson

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Sadness
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. – Emily Dickinson

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Death
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. – Christopher Smart

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Poetry

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. – Aeschylus

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Will, Willpower

You put it in new words, but it is an old thought. This is one of the disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson, 1778, quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

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Wine

Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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Books

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London. – Sebastian Coe

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Dreams