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.

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.

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

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse