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She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.
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death
emily-dickinson
rebirth
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Emily Dickinson |
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My Mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space - began to toll, As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race Wrecked, solitary, here - And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down - And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing - then -
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pain
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funeral
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Emily Dickinson |
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"Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
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magic
rain
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death
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music
songs
life
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cityspire
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fedora
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horace-walpole
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spectre
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empty
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ships
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water
piano
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Nathan Reese Maher |
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"Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day
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emily-dickinson
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Emily Dickinson |
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open me carefully
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emily-dickinson
letter
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Emily Dickinson |
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"There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach
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magic
rain
poems
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sacrifice
death
dreams
music
songs
life
carrack
cityisle
cityspire
desolate
fedora
haunts
horace-walpole
mannequins
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puddles
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spectre
amnesia
androids
haunting
greek-mythology
waking
damnation
count
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masquerade
empty
science-fiction
gothic
jazz
ships
ghosts
water
piano
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Nathan Reese Maher |
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"History doesn't start with a tall building
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rain
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life
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cityspire
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fedora
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count
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magick
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reflections
storms
masquerade
empty
science-fiction
gothic
jazz
ships
ghosts
water
piano
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Nathan Reese Maher |
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"she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson..." "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary author, or would-be author, to confess admiration for another. At last I said, "Not Hemingway--a really dishonest man, the closet-everything. Not Thomas Wolfe--all that purple upchuck; of course, he isn't living. Faulkner, sometimes: Light in August. Fitzgerald, sometimes: Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Tender Is the Night. I really like Willa Cather. Have you read My Mortal Enemy?" With no particular expression, she said, "Actually, I wrote it."
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emily-dickinson
henry-james
light-in-august
nathaniel-hawthorne
tender-is-the-night
thomas-wolfe
william-faulkner
willa-cather
ernest-hemingway
f-scott-fitzgerald
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Truman Capote |
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"She leaves my side and heads deeper into
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rain
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sacrifice
death
dreams
music
songs
life
carrack
cityisle
cityspire
desolate
fedora
haunts
horace-walpole
mannequins
phillip-k-dick
puddles
specters
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androids
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count
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magick
tempest
apocalypse
reflections
storms
masquerade
empty
science-fiction
gothic
jazz
ships
ghosts
water
piano
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Nathan Reese Maher |
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"That's a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say, 'I'm going to fly in my Model-A1'.
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rain
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cityisle
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storms
masquerade
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science-fiction
gothic
jazz
ships
ghosts
water
piano
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