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

Quote by Emily Dickinson

Topics: Life Quotes, Short Quotes

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie...True Poems...

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie...True Poems...

Nature is a haunted house..but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

Nature is a haunted house..but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire...

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing, Chin to knee on...

When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing, Chin to knee on...

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I...

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I...

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'

Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry...

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry...

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after...

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns

Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.