“If I can stop one Heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

— Emily Dickinson, If I can stop one Heart from breaking (poem)

About Emily Dickinson

1830 – 1886

American poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most of them unpublished in her lifetime, on nature, death, faith and the inner life.

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

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes.”

“I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – Too?”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”

“What is life without the radiance of love?”

“Wealth cannot make a life, but love.”

“Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it.”

“He who loves God is also able to accept life and to love it.”