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Emily Dickinson didn't just study Minimalism—they mastered it. This archive captures the principles and frameworks they developed through direct experience. Each quote includes source context, allowing you to trace their thinking from observation to insight. Use this collection when you're serious about understanding Minimalism at a deeper level, not just consuming motivational content.
"Enough is as good as a feast."
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
"I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too?"
"A little Madness in the Spring / Is wholesome even for the King"
"Finite — to fail, but infinite to Venture —"
"They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight"
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant— / Success in Circuit lies"
"We outgrow love, like other things / And put it in the Drawer —"
"A Wounded Deer — leaps highest —"
"The Outer—from the Inner / Derives its Magnitude—"
"Water, is taught by thirst. Land — by the Oceans passed."
"Infinite softness — May be seen / On any polished Face —"
"The missing All — prevented Me / From missing minor Things —"
"The Soul's Superior instants / Occur to Her — alone —"
"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."
"The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind—"
"The Brain — is wider than the Sky — For — put them side by side — The one the other will contain"
"The Heart asks Pleasure — first — / And then — Excuse from Pain —"
"Renunciation — is a piercing Virtue — The letting go — A Presence — for an Expectation —"
"Earth is a syllable, in the sentence of eternity."
"Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting plate"
"Nature is a Haunted House--but Art--is a House that tries to be haunted."
"A solitude of space / A solitude of sea / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be"
"To be alive — is Power — / Existence — in itself —"
"The Soul selects her own Society— / Then—shuts the Door— / To her divine Majority— / Present no more—"
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"The soul's distinct connection / With immortality"
"The Pedigree of Honey / Does not concern the Bee — / A Clover, any time, to him, / Is Aristocracy —"
"Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need."
"Exhilaration is within — There can no Outer Wine / So lift the Spirit from itself"
"Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every door."
"The Soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstacy experience."
"I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose —"
"One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — / One need not be a House —"
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