Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.


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And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro...
EMILY DICKINSON
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone y...
EMILY CARR
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTE
Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary gra...
EMILY BRONT
This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE
To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON
His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu...
EMILY MILLER
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi...
EMILY BRONTE
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e...
EMILY CARR
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON
A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON
The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON
'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON
I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!
EMILY POST
I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON
Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern sup...
EMILY POST
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON
If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON
His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From ...
EMILY DICKINSON
God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven...
EMILY DICKINSON
And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON
"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON
If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON
The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- ...
EMILY DICKINSON
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON