I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

The Soul selects her own Society.

To be alive──is Power.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld, —The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, —Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.

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.

To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee—

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

Not with a club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone –A Whip so small you could not see itI've known

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

Don't let the man bring you down.

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.