Emily Dickinson

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

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