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Quotation from Poems: First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson

“There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.”

Emily Dickinson (spoken by The poet)

Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Nature XXXI (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1890 text))

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A winter light brings a heavenly hurt that leaves no scar, only an internal difference where the meanings are.

Citation: "There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes." — Emily Dickinson, Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Nature XXXI (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1890 text)). (id poems-of-emily-dickinson-q2)

Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia), Unknown author, Public domain.

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