“Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Smile
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
DeathAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
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.”
Smile“For love is immortality.”
Love“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Food“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Death“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“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.”
Alone“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life