Except Thyself may be
Thine Enemy --
Captivity is Consciousness --
So's Liberty.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
More Quotes from Emily Dickinson:
Fight sternly in a Dying eyeTwo Armies, Love and Certainty
And Love and the Reverse.
Emily Dickinson
Pain is the Junior Party
By just a Second's right --
Death tenderly assists Him
And then absconds from Sight.
Emily Dickinson
Therein thyself shalt find
The "Undiscovered Continent" --
No Settler had the Mind.
Emily Dickinson
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Emily Dickinson
I reason, we could die --
The best Vitality
Cannot excel Decay,
But, what of that?
Emily Dickinson
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
Emily Dickinson
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