"I was unnerved to learn in my twenties……" — Helen Vendler

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• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too… — Susan Howe
• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily… — Margarita Engle
• Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical… — Barbara Hambly
• 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… — Billy Collins
• Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at… — 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… — 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… — Joyce Carol Oates
• I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read… — Maurice Sendak
• You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top… — Maurice Sendak

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