“ The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy. Emily Dickinson
“ I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Easier size. Emily Dickinson
“ I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through – And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum – Kept beating – be… Emily Dickinson
“ Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
“ A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Emily Dickinson
“ To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson
“ To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few. Emily Dickinson
“ Inebriate of Air — am I —And Debauchee of Dew —Reeling — thro endless summer days —From Inns of Molten Blue — Emily Dickinson
“ Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Emily Dickinson
“ They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Emily Dickinson
“ I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. Emily Dickinson