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

— Emily Dickinson · Friendship quote

Poet · 1830 – 1886

American poet whose nearly 1,800 poems, mostly unpublished in her lifetime, made her a central figure of American literature.

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I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Forever is composed of nows.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

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

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.