Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.
The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.
'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.
The brain is wider than the sky.
Finite to fail but infinite to venture.
Life is death we're lengthy at
Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.
Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears...
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
Consciousness is the only home of which we know.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.
And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?
We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor f...
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo...
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Those who have not found the heaven below,will fail of it above.