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Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

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For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.

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-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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