Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONBring me the sunset in a cup.
EMILY DICKINSONTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSONYou don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSONCelebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONThe sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
EMILY DICKINSONLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
EMILY DICKINSONPeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSONThere is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
EMILY DICKINSONIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONThey say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSONI have an appetite for silence.
EMILY DICKINSONI felt it shelter to speak to you.
EMILY DICKINSONBut a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
EMILY DICKINSONThe past is not a package one can lay away.
EMILY DICKINSON