I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.Collection: Hope
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.Collection: Truth
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.Collection: Pet
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!Collection: Faith
Fortune befriends the bold.Collection: Success
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.Collection: Sympathy
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.Collection: Poetry
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.Collection: God
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.Collection: Age
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.Collection: Death
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.Collection: Famous
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Collection: Experience
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.Collection: Age
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.Collection: Famous
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.Collection: Famous
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.Collection: Death
I dwell in possibility.Collection: Inspirational
Forever is composed of nows.Collection: Time
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.Collection: Morning
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Collection: Time
Where thou art, that is home.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Alone
Beauty is not caused. It is.Collection: Beauty
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.Collection: Life
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!Collection: Nature
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.Collection: Smile
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.Collection: Time
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.Collection: Hope
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.Collection: Truth
My friends are my estate.Collection: Friendship
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.Collection: Fear
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.Collection: Success
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.Collection: Nature
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.Collection: Poetry
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.Collection: Poetry
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.Collection: Great
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Smile
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.Collection: Romantic
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.Collection: Life
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.