To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything e... - Emily Dickinson

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

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

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."

"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."

"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"