"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ― Emily Dickinson Topic(s): Love More From Emily Dickinson "After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs." "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." More In Love "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."― Maurice Maeterlinck "Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."― Francis Beaumont "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."― Zelda Fitzgerald