Emily Dickinson

"I taste a liquor never brewed in any vat."

"The Bible is an antique volume written by faded men."

"Experience is the angled road preferable to straight."

"The difference between despair and fear is given by a gramme."

"Power is only pain."

"The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind."

"If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve."

"The worthiest record is the worth of those we love."

"Ourselves were wed one summer and could the dew have come."

"My life had stood a loaded gun."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."

"I gave myself to Him and took His name and dwelt in his design."

"Precious is a trifle solitude."

"The truth I do not dare to know I murmur as I go."

"My business is circumference."

"Beauty crowds me till I die."

"The distance that the dead have gone does not at first appear."

"To venerate the simple days which riches cannot buy."

"How happy is the little Stone that rambles in the Road."

"A word is dead when it is said by some and every single one."

"The only News I know is Bulletins all day from Immortality."

"Life is so much shorter than we think it."

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

"I took my Power in my Hand and went unto the Soil."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Split the Lark and you'll find the Music."

"Kindness is the only chain by which we bind people to us."

"Hope is a thing whose feathers never moult."

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

"Renunciation is a piercing virtue."