Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it re... -Emily Dickinson

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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson , Poet
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Emily Dickinson was an American poet known for her unique style and approach to poetry. She wrote prolifically but gained recognition posthumously. Dickinson's poems explored themes of nature, death, immortality, and the human experience, making her one of the most influential poets in American literature.

Emily Dickinson Quotes to Explore

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name....
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent....
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate....
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven....
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all....
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry....
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry....
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
Where thou art, that is home....
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned....

Time Quotes to Explore

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time....
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality....
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be....
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one ...
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there....
We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis....
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a gam...
I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time....
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work....
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got....