Famous Creative Women Quotations from . . .
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886) born on
Dec 10
US poet. She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.

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F
"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church --
I keep it, staying at Home --
With a Bobolink for a Chorister --
And an Orchard, for a Dome."


R
"His mind of man, a secret makes
I meet him with a start
He carries a circumference
In which I have no part."
A
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
N
"I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing Eyes --
I wonder if It weighs like Mine --
Or has an Easier size."
K
"This World is not Conclusion.
A Sequel stands beyond--
Invisible, as Music--
But positive, as Sound."


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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 324, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955."
R: ""The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 1663, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955."
A: "Letter, 1874; in "Letters of Emily Dickinson," ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894."
N: "1862; "Poems, Third Series," 1896."
K: ""Poems, Third Series," 1896."

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