An Altitude of Death, that could
No bitterer debar
Than Life -- had done -- before it --
Yet -- there is a Science more --
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
More Quotes from Emily Dickinson:
Meanwhile -- Her wheeling King --Trailed -- slow -- along the Orchards --
His haughty -- spangled Hems --
Leaving a new necessity!
Emily Dickinson
The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind
Emily Dickinson
These are the days when skies resume
The old -- old sophistries of June --
A blue and gold mistake.
Emily Dickinson
Immortal is an ample word
When what we need is by
But when it leaves us for a time
'Tis a necessity.
Emily Dickinson
A Wounded Deer -- leaps highest --
I've heard the Hunter tell --
'Tis but the Ecstasy of death --
And then the Brake is still!
Emily Dickinson
Let us deport -- with skill --
Let us discourse -- with care --
Powder exists in Charcoal --
Before it exists in Fire.
Emily Dickinson
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