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

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.

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 –

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

We do not have control over what happens to us. But we have the courage to conquer.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

There is no shortcut to grieving.