47 quotes
American poet (1830-1886)
“Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.”
"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul..."
on Hope
"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit."
on Mental Health
"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
on Truth
"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."
on Philosophy
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted."
on Psychology
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
on Writing
"The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson"
"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."
on Nature
"One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —"
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye...."
"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."
on Death
"To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee—"
"Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain."
on Life
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
on Love
"Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed."
on Success
"We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore."
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
on Happiness
"Parting is all we know of Heaven,and all we need of Hell."
"The past is not a package one can lay away."
on Time
"Consciousness is the only home of which we know."
