“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency”
“The fog is rising.”
“I dwell in Possibility.”
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
“Where thou art, that is home.”
“Let us go in; the fog is rising.”
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“The Brain is wider than the sky-.”
“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
“Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.”
“Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
“Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.”
“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.”
“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”
“To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
“A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.”
“Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --”
“The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.”
“His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!”
“To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.”