Emily Dickinson

"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

"Forever is composed of nows."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."

"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"

"The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not want to use againUntil eternity"

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"She dealt her pretty words like Blades --How glittering they shone --And every One unbared a NerveOr wantoned with a Bone --She never deemed -- she hurt --That -- is not Steel's Affair --A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --How ill the Creatures bear --To Ache is human -- not polite --The Film upon the eyeMortality's old Custom --Just locking up -- to Die."

"A wounded dear leaps the highest"

"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes."

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

"Where thou art, that is home."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."