To be alive──is Power.

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.

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 –

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

As hard as it is to face your fears, it's even harder to surrender to them and walk in their shadows for the rest of your life.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable power.

Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.