emily dickinson

“ If I can stop one heart from breaking, ”

“ I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away. ”

“ Sometimes I shut my eyes, and shut my heart towards you, and try hard to forget you because you grieve me so, but you'll never go away, oh you never will. ”

“ I died for beauty, but was scarce ”

“ Judge tenderly of me. ”

“ The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care. ”

“ She died-this was the way she died; ”

“ Those who have not found the heaven below, ”

“ The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain. ”

“ Love is like the wild rose-briar; ”