Tell the truth but tell it slant.
Tell the truth but tell it slant.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry.
How strange that nature does not knock and yet does not intrude!
How strange that nature does not knock and yet does not intrude!
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
For love is immortality.
For love is immortality.