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

"The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care"

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

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

"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--"

"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."