Quotes by Dickinson, Emily

Tell the truth, but tell it slant. >>

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a c >>

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! An >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good on >>

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former c >>

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're no >>

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.

Dickinson, Emily