American - Poet | December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
DeerWoundedHighestLeaps
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
PeopleOppressionNeedHardMuscles
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
SmileMeSmallSightNeedHead
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
LifeLoveDeathLove IsCreation
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
LifeBrokenStumbleWellSureHopes
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
LifeLoveLove IsImmortalityArgue
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
LifeJoyEnoughFindLivingSense
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.
NatureAloneBeeWillPrairieBees
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
NatureStrangeKnockHowDoes
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
GodFaithBirdMeSongWoods
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
SmileLuckChanceExpensiveFortune
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
LifeManMeNameFamousLiving
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