The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic exper…

Emily Dickinson
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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The brain is wider than the sky. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). Dickinson, p.17, Harvard University Press
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. ✨ Emily Dickinson (1998). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.420, Harvard University Press
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. ✨ c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).
I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, p.222, Harvard University Press
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive Ne … ▶

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