Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONCelebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONI am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
EMILY DICKINSONIt is easy to work when the soul is at play.
EMILY DICKINSONA wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSONI hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSONDoes not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
EMILY DICKINSONUntil you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
EMILY DICKINSONThis is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONWhere thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSONBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
EMILY DICKINSONI could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
EMILY DICKINSONMy friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSONBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
EMILY DICKINSONThe lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
EMILY DICKINSON