Dickinson Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isnâ€™t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
When Reason BreaksÂ is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the… — Margarita Engle
Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heartâ€™s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears… — Barbara Hamby
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense. — Tom Verlaine
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. — Billy Collins
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. — Don Roff
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded. — Sally Mann
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry… — Francesca Lia Block
No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! — Andy Richter
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David… — Joyce Carol Oates
I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She… — Maurice Sendak
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These… — Maurice Sendak
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy… — Matt Groening
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but… — Peter S. Beagle
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on… — Jennifer Donnelly
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost. — Paul Simon
If I can stop one heart from breakingâ€¦â€ Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If… — Emily Dickinson
How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must… — Woody Allen
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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