Emily Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emily Poet Poetry Sociability Solitude Supreme
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily -… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world. — Christopher Benfey 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 a poem,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a poem when… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.” — Suzanne Supplee Copy Share Image
“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were being torn down, one of the workmen chanced upon a small leatherbound book that had apparently been concealed behind a loose brick or in a crevice in the wall. By this time Emily Dickinson was a household name… — Jamie Fuller Copy Share
I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“He dipped his head and kissed along my jaw. 'I promise, nothing about being inside you will disappoint me.” — Kelley R. Martin Copy Share Image
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
“His gaze was too personal again, like we were the only two people in the room. I was the first to break eye contact,… — Kelley R. Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
“He lived to see her smile, to make her laugh, to kiss her. He wanted to spend all day reading with her, all night… — Lauren Smith Copy Share Image
I had done an interview with 'Hello' magazine. In it, they asked me if I was going to marry Emily Blunt. Of course, what… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Finding original source material is not easy, but when something special like 'Edge of Tomorrow' comes along, everybody recognized it. I wasn't swimming against… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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