Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinsonwas an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 December 1830
CityAmherst, MA
Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?
Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe
Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
Publication - is the auction of the mind...
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.
A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth