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.”

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”

“God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.”

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

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

“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”

“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”

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

“I dwell in possibility.”

“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.”

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”

“My friends are my estate.”

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”

“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

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

“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!”

“Where thou art, that is home.”

“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”