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• Love — is anterior to Life —
Posterior — to Death —
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth.

• We noticed smallest things —
Things overlooked before
By this great light upon our Minds
Italicized — as 'twere

• A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

• Behind Me — dips Eternity —
Before Me — Immortality —
Myself — the Term between —

• Susan Gilbert Dickinson to Emily Dickinson in 1861, "If a nightingale sings with her breast against a thorn, why not we?"

• Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.

• Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.

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