“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were… — Jamie Fuller Copy Share Image
“Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. —letter from Emily Dickinson to… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and… — Barbara Browning Copy Share Image
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“You keep talking about ego, my God, it would take Christ himself to decide what's ego and what isn't. This is God's… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
