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“That love is all there is, / Is all we know of love.”

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Dickinson folds a line of her own into a four-line riddle about how little can be said on the subject, then closes that love is the only cargo a heart can carry. The poem is less about romance than about capacity, which is why it sits well beside the more decorative love verses.

Source: Poems by Emily Dickinson

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