That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
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...
She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,Took up her simple wardrobeAnd started for the sun.Her little figure at the gateThe angels must have spied,Since I could never find her...
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.
A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.
A great hope fell
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
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.
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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...
Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.
That I shall love always, I argue thee
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?
Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson
Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
For love is immortality.