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

Quote by Emily Dickinson

Topics: Life Quotes, Short Quotes

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...

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...

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of...

Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of...

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre,...

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre,...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without...

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as...

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as...

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...