How adequate unto itself
Its properties shall be
Itself unto itself and none
Shall make discovery.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Maimed -- was I -- yet not by Venture --Stone of stolid Boy --
Nor a Sportsman's Peradventure --
Who mine Enemy?
Emily Dickinson
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Emily Dickinson
When every way we fly
We are molested equally
By immortality.
Emily Dickinson
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise,
The maddest noise that grows, --
The birds, they make it in the spring,
At night's delicious close.
Emily Dickinson
Since then 'tis centuries and yet
Feels shorter than the DAY
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
Emily Dickinson
He lived the Life of Ambush
And went the way of Dusk
And now against his subtle name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality intrenched
Within a star --
Emily Dickinson
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