Emily Dickinson

"Eden is that old-fashioned House we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode."

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

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

"Publication is the auction of the mind of man."

"Ourselves were wed one summer and then the time was lost."

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. But I have come to think it just begins to live that day."

"I took my power in my hand and went unto the soil."

"The most triumphant hour in human life is when she has successfully subdued the selfish and has given all to the common good."

"Me from myself to banish, had I Art, could I prevent myself I would, but a Coward to myself."

"As if I asked a common Alms and in my wondering hand a Stranger pressed a Kingdom."

"The admirations of others is a very dangerous thing."

"To see her is a Picture, to hear her is a Melody."

"I never lost as much but twice and that was in the sod."

"The Spider as an Artist has never been employed, though his Art is as beautiful as that of Raphael."

"Going-to-Her was like opening a door that opened on Eternity."

"The Bustle in a house the Morning after Death is solemnest of industries."

"Water makes a good Neighbour but one does not want to live in it."

"It was not death for I stood up and all the dead cried out."

"I am afraid to own a Body I elect to my Society."

"The Heart asks Pleasure first and then Excuse from Pain."

"Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?"

"Going to Her is like opening the door that opens upon Eternity."

"Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night had Numbed it but her sweet Weight."

"The Pattern of the Feather took my Breath away."

"Could I but have had the privilege of giving it to the World, while it was new."

"Dare to open a window unto Heaven."

"The difference between Despair and Fear is sometimes only the length of a Night."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"I found the phrase to every thought I ever had, but one, and that defines me."

"Our share of night to bear, our share of morning."