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U.S. poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)- Emily Dickinson spent a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, but returned home due to homesickness. She seldom left her home. Later in life, she seldom left her room.
- But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.John Green -- Paper Towns
- Or your beloved Emily Dickinson?J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- I mouth the names I read off the spines, at least the ones I can make out: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- He made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- I am fond of Miss Emily Dickinson: No snikcidy lime, a contrary name with a delicious sour-green taste.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- I mean, if you look at all the great people in history — Einstein, Michelangelo, Emily Dickinson — then you're looking at a bunch of weird people.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- "Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high."John Green -- Looking for Alaska
- I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- I watch as she puts checkmarks next to the books: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, poems by Emily Dickinson (any), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- An Emily Dickinson poem, "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking," which Amanda read aloud at the lectern, after first welcoming everybody and thanking them for coming.Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
- That theatrical moment was only rivaled five years ago when an elegantly intoxicated friend sang Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."Kaye Gibbons -- My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves
- I would end up in the art building, making instant coffee in the basement, and then sit for hours reading Emily Dickinson or Louise Bogan in the spring-shot sofas and chairs spotted throughout the building.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- Andrews averaged fifteen to twenty books a week; his taste encompassed both trash and belle-lettres, and he liked poetry, Robert Frost's particularly, but he also admired Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the comic poems of Ogden Nash.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place — Ourself behind ourself, concealed — Should startle most — Assassin hid in our Apartment Be Horror's least...... — EMILY DICKINSON, C. 1863.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- I was determined that before our last leave-taking Sophie and Nathan would hear my voice; the indecency of the Reverend DeWitt having the final word was more than I could abide, and so I thumbed diligently through the section generously allotted to Emily Dickinson, in search of the loveliest statement I could find.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Yours with great admiration, Hazel Grace Lancaster (age 16) After I sent it, I called Augustus back, and we stayed up late talking about An Imperial Affliction, and I read him the Emily Dickinson poem that Van Houten had used for the title, and he said I had a good voice for reading and didn't pause too long for the line breaks, and then he told me that the sixth Price of Dawn book, The Blood Approves, begins with a quote from a poem.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- So, partly as a result of having internalized these attitudes through growing up with them, and partly as a result of growing a skin to protect myself against them, I went for years half-avoiding and half- resisting the opulence and extensiveness of poets as different as Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke; crediting insufficiently the crystalline inwardness of Emily Dickinson, all those forked lightnings and fissures of association; and missing the visionary strangeness of Eliot.Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
- Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson and Leaves of Grass.John Green -- Paper Towns
- — EMILY DICKINSON, c. 1860.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
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