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Emily Dickinson
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  • She would have much rather read another Charles Dickens book, or Emily Dickinson.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • I mouth the names I read off the spines, at least the ones I can make out: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth.†  (source)
  • I am fond of Miss Emily Dickinson: No snikcidy lime, a contrary name with a delicious sour-green taste.†  (source)
  • A giant rubber plant stood just inside the front hallway next to tall mahogany bookcases that held the cherished volumes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Emily Dickinson, and of James Welden Johnson and Langston Hughes that Grandma and Mother loved so much.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • He made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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."†  (source)
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