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

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children ...more

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

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Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.

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A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale...more

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There is no Frigate like a book.

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'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.

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Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epau...more

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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

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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;...more

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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...more