One of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson remains largely an enigma. Dickinson tells how it is to be a human being in a particular moment, in compressed, hard, blazingly vivid poems. Her greatest seem not sung but forced into being by a craving for a kind of forbidden knowledge of the unknowable. Forever – is [...]
Books &Literature &Poetry Entropy | 12 Sep 2007
There is no frigate like book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears the human soul ! -Emily Dickinson
Hope is a strange invention – A Patent of the Heart – In unremitting action Yet never wearing out – Of this electric Adjunct Not anything is known But its unique momentum Embellish all we own – –Emily Dickinson