Emily Dickinson

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

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

A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.

Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

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 a Human soul.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

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.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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--

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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