Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. ✨ …

Emily Dickinson
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. ✨ I taste a liquor never brewed l. 5 (ca. 1861)
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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