Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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[in this Emily Dickinson] -illuminates and magnifies these relationships through the lens of a single flower and everything that goes into making its bloom— this emblem of seduction-possible: the worms in the soil (which Darwin celebrated as the unsung agriculturalists that shaped Earth as we know it), the pollinators in the spring air, all the creatures both competing for resources and symbiotically aiding each other.
And, suddenly, the flower emerges not as this pretty object to be admired, like it had been throughout the canon of Victorian poetry, but as this ravishing system of aliveness—a kind of silent symphony of interconnected resilience.
Maria Popova on Bloom by Emily Dickinson (in The Universe in Verse)
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It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness —
I'm so accustomed to my Fate —
Perhaps the Other — Peace —
Would interrupt the Dark —
And crowd the little Room —
Too scant — by Cubits — to contain
The Sacrament — of Him —
I am not used to Hope —
It might intrude upon —
Its sweet parade — blaspheme the place —
Ordained to Suffering —
It might be easier
To fail — with Land in Sight —
Than gain — My Blue Peninsula —
To perish — of Delight —
Emily Dickinson, "It might be lonelier," from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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because i could not stop for death
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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my emily dickinson collection so far!!! im p sure im missing one tho :/
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heart! we will forget him!
you and i - tonight!
you may forget the warmth he gave -
i will forget the light!
-emily dickinson
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From: Emily Dickinson – Abdallah Benanteur, Six poèmes, collection "Charef", Paris, 1965, Edition of 10 [© Abdallah Benanteur]
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