Emily Dickinson

Helen Vendler

Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. In accompanying commentaries, Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson, and her selection reveals Dickinson's development as a poet.

Dickinson

I do think there's a certain type of romanticism in thinking that all that you could give to someone is your heart and the place there you're right now.

Zach Watterson

This, and my heart, and all the fields — 

Did you ever think that time is just a concept in space and in reality we are just living a single thing since we were born? We do not have days, weeks, or years. This is an illusion and time is a heaviness of it is own. 

It is that thing that you would never recognize peace if you didn't meet the war. 

Lindsay

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

The Eyes glaze once— and that is Death—

And then— the size of this "small" life—

Swelled— like Horizons— in my vest—

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