Emily Quotes · Page 5

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

— Camille Paglia

To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,…

— Maureen Corrigan

Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to…

— Dick Button

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

— Gloria Estefan

There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back…

— Tinsel Korey

Even though she's dealing with a scar, Emily just carries on with life. It's not a big deal. While we were shooting…

— Tinsel Korey

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

— Emily Dickinson

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very…

— Jennifer Ehle

“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily…

— L.M. Montgomery

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,…

— Maurice Sendak

Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending…

— Camille Paglia

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I…

— Zooey Deschanel

I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Where the frick are you?! I’ve been frickin’ driving all frickin’ around this stupid frickin’ city all frickin’ day trying to find…

— Melanie Fair

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

— Alice Hoffman

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has…

— Gerald Stern

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In…

— Emily Dickinson

I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus…

— Kate Bernheimer

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

— Simon Van Booy

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

— Gilda Radner

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes…

— Billy Collins

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided…

— Agnes de Mille

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live…

— Emily Dickinson