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Quotation from Poems: First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson
“The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.”
Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Life XLIII (The Brain) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1896 text))
The mind can contain the sky and absorb the sea; the poem ends by weighing the brain against God.
Citation: "The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside." — Emily Dickinson, Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Life XLIII (The Brain) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1896 text)). (id poems-of-emily-dickinson-q8)
Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia), Unknown author, Public domain.
