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Emily Dickinson

  • Anger as soon as fed is dead--
    'Tis starving that makes it fat--.
    (topic: anger)


  • Fame is a bee.
    It has a song--
    It has a sting--
    Ah, too, it has a wing.
    (topic: fame)


  • Hope is a strange invention--
    A Patent of the Heart--
    In unremitting action
    Yet never wearing out.
    (topic: hope)


  • The Possible's slow fuse is lit
    By the Imagination.
    (topic: imagination)


  • Unable are the Loved to die
    For Love is Immortality.
    (topic: love)


  • Luck is not chance---
    It's Toil---
    Fortune's expensive smile
    Is earned---
    (topic: luck)


  • Nature, like us is sometimes caught
    Without her diadem.
    (topic: nature)


  • The words the happy say
    Are paltry melody
    But those the silent feel
    Are beautiful--
    (topic: silence)