Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

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.

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.

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

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

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.