Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
The soul selects her own society--then shuts the door.
The only secret people keep is immortality
Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care.
Fortune befriends the bold.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
The brain is wider than the sky.