Emily Dickinson, born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, is one of the premier American poets of the 19th century. She is an American poetess who died at the age of 56.
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! by Emily Dickinson Go to Quote / Comment
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. Go to Quote / Comment
The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying—this to Us Made Nature different Go to Quote / Comment
My life closed twice before its close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Go to Quote / Comment
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. Go to Quote / Comment