“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”

“Our lives are Swiss, so still- so cool”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.”

“The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.”

“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.I've heard it in the chilliest landAnd on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.”