Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Meaning of the quote
This quote suggests that love is more fundamental than life itself. It existed before we were born and will continue to exist even after we die. Love is a core part of how the world was created, and it is deeply connected to the very act of breathing and being alive.
More quotes from Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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For love is immortality.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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My friends are my estate.
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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I dwell in possibility.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
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I’m nobody, who are you?
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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