Emily Dickinson Quotes

History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.

There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.