Emily Dickinson
“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —”
“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; a clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”
“I never saw a Moor — I never saw the Sea; yet know I how the Heather looks, and what a Wave must be.”
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise—”
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“The brain is wider than the sky—”
“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
“My life closed twice before its close—”
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
“I dwell in Possibility—”
“Forever is composed of nows.”
“Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—”
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant—”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—”