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Posts tagged Emily Dickinson

I took my power in my hand
And went against the world;

Emily Dickinson, excerpt of I Took My Power (via antigonick)

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson (via 7-weeks)

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

Emily Dickinson (via enigmaticrose)

theparisreview:

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
Sadie Stein on the context behind her favorite line of Emily Dickinson’s.

Bizarre Literary Myths

Jason Diamond explores 10 Literary Myths over at Flavorwire

pearlsthatwereeyes:

mydarkenedeyes:
Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)
This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.
This is so cool.