Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. ✨ Emily Dick…

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Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. ✨ Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them. Edited by Cristanne Miller,
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. ✨ ?1872 Complete Poems, no.1212 (first published 1894).
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round … ▶
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Migh … ▶
An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near. ✨ Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.101, Heinemann
Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured. ✨ Emily Dickinson (1986). Selected Letters, p.77, Harvard University Press

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. ✨ Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them. Edited by Cristanne Miller,

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