"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true."

"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

"Art is a house that tries to be haunted."

"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."

"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!"

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."

"Water is taught by thirst;Land, by the oceans passed;Transport, by throe;Peace, by its battles told;Love, by memorial mould;Birds, by the snow."

"I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep."I woke and chid my honest fingers,-The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own."

"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-As if my Brain had split-I tried to match it-Seam by Seam-But could not make it fit."

"Till I loved I never lived."

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"There is a pain " so utter " It swallows substance up " Then covers the Abyss with Trance " So Memory can step Around " across " opon it " As one within a Swoon " Goes safely " where an open eye " Would drop Him " Bone by Bone."

"I dwell in possibility."

"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it."

"If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As Housewives do a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls -And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse -If only Centuries, delayed, I'd count them on my Hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I 'd toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity. But, now, uncertain of the length Of this, that is between, It goads me, like the Goblin Bee, That will not state - its sting."

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

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

"Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing."

"Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain."

"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."

"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat."

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

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

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

"I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too-And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness..."

"Sunrise: day's great progenitor."

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

"Where thou art, that is home."

"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."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

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

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

"Wild Nights " Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile " the winds "To a heart in port "Done with the compass "Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden "Ah, the sea!Might I moor " Tonight "In thee!"