Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. – Emily Dickinson
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. – Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. – Emily Dickinson
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. – Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. – Emily Dickinson
Tis so much joy! Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory! – Emily Dickinson
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live. – Jane Siberry