Break Quote by Christopher Benfey

“EMILY It happened in Amherst in 1886. When Emily Dickinson died, the family discovered eighteen hundred poems hidden in her bedroom. On tiptoe she…

— Eduardo Galeano

“skies— —Emily Dickinson”

— Laura McBride

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire…

— Camille Paglia

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your…

— Sarah Dunn

“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a passion of…

— Eva Hope

“But like all beautiful faces Emily's made you believe that its possessor was a better person than she was. It allowed her to pass…

— Michael Chabon

“Emily's convalescence was rather slow. Physically she recovered with normal celerity but a certain spiritual and emotional languor persisted for a time. One cannot…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Ilse lost her temper at once and went into a true Burnley tantrum. She was very fluent in her rages and the volley of…

— L.M. Montgomery

“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were being torn…

— Jamie Fuller

“I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896”

— Angie Kim

Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding…

— Christopher Benfey