Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, … - Emily Dickinson

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Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

Emily Dickinson
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!
Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath!

And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

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But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.

ما شاهدت المرج قبلا ما أ ريت البحر يوم اً
لكني أدركت شكل العشب
وصوت الموج دوم اً .
لا أ ريت وجه الإله
ولا حتى زرته في عليائه
لكني اعرف تماما موقعها (أي المرج والبحر)
كأنّ احدهم أعطاني رسم اً لها .

Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.

Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat… - Emily Dickinson

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