{"author":"Emily Dickinson","author_id":"Emily+Dickinson","total_quotes":206,"quotes":[{"text":"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["poetry"],"id":312,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["fame"],"id":1522,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"The mere sense of living is joy enough.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["time"],"id":1689,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"I sing to use the waiting,  My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house;  No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching,  We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang  To keep the dark away.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["darkness","love","poetry","waiting"],"id":1837,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"To be alive──is Power.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["life-lesson"],"id":2257,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"Fortune befriends the bold.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["bold","fortune "],"id":7711,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"Tell all the truth but tell it slant.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["poetry","prose","writing"],"id":8090,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["friendship","immortality","letter-writing","letters","the-mind"],"id":16533,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["emily-dickinson-eternal-life","light","poem","poet","poetry"],"id":18241,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.Far safer, of a midnight meetingExternal ghost,Than an interior confrontingThat whiter host.Far safer through an Abbey gallop,The stones achase,Than, moonless, one's own self encounterIn lonesome place.Ourself, behind ourself concealed,Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment,Be horror's least.The prudent carries a revolver,He bolts the door,O'erlooking a superior spectreMore near.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["ghosts","haunted","loneliness","unconscious"],"id":22242,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":206,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}