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

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

“Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few.”

“Till I loved I never lived.”

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

“There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.”

“For Dickinson as part of a middle-class community anxious about female creativity, self-assertion, self-expression, and egoism, Shakespeare and Stratford may have been emblems appropriate to her ow...”

“If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.”

“I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circums...”

“I thought I had everything until I found you.”

“When I saw you, I discovered love!”

“Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.”

“I look into your eyes and Im sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.”