Where thou art, that is home.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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

My friends are my estate.

Fortune befriends the bold.

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

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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

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.

For love is immortality.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

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

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Forever is composed of nows.

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

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

I dwell in possibility.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

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

I'm nobody, who are you?

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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

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

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

Where thou art, that is home.