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Explore the profound and timeless wisdom of Emily Dickinson. This collection features some of her most celebrated poems and thoughts on hope, identity, life, and death. Discover the brilliance of one of America's greatest poets, alongside other literary giants like Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe.

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00:00Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never
00:06stops at all dash.
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00:12I'm nobody.
00:14Who are you?
00:16Are you nobody, too?
00:19Then there's a pair of us.
00:21Don't tell.
00:23They'd banish us, you know.
00:26How dreary to be somebody.
00:29How public, like a frog.
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00:36Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me, the carriage held but just ourselves, and immortality.
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00:48Tell all the truth but tell it slant, success and circuit lies.
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00:57The brain is wider than the sky, for put them side by side, the one the other will contain with
01:03ease, and you, beside.
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01:10Much madness is divinest sense, to you, it's madness, to me, it's sense.
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01:20Unable are the love to die, for love is immortality.
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01:29After great pain, a formal feeling comes, the numbness, as of cork.
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01:38I dwell in possibility, a fairer house than prose.
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01:47The only antidote to a long sermon is a wrong hymn.
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01:55There is no frigate like a book.
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02:03The soul selects her own society, then, shuts the door.
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02:12Beauty is not that of the eye.
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02:19The unexplored region of the mind
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02:27Nature is a haunted house, but the ghosts are all departed.
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02:35The most intense of us
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02:42My life had stood a loaded gun dash
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02:50A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the sagacious deer say
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02:59I reason, therefore I am
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03:07Forever
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03:08Forever
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03:08Forever is composed of nows
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