It has no Future -- but itself --
Its Infinite contain
Its Past -- enlightened to perceive
New Periods -- of Pain.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
More Quotes from Emily Dickinson:
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies.Emily Dickinson
Adventure most unto itself
The Soul condemned to be --
Attended by a single Hound
Its own identity.
Emily Dickinson
Insulting is the sun
To him whose mortal light
Beguiled of immortality
Bequeaths him to the night.
Emily Dickinson
As subtle as tomorrow
That never came,
A warrant, a conviction,
Yet but a name.
Emily Dickinson
The Stars thou meetst
Are even as Thyself --
For what are Stars but Asterisks
To point a human Life?
Emily Dickinson
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