Emily Quotes - Page 8

• I also went to the Makah Nation 'cause that's where Emily is originally from and spent time with them too. Seeing the whole spectrum of who she is as a being was cool. And, I miss it. It's beautiful. I miss the kids a lot. I miss everything about that whole entire adventure.

  Tinsel Korey

  Beautiful, Adventure, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

  Kate Bernheimer

  Mean, Ideas, Vignettes

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• [Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Solitude, Poet, Supreme

  Joyce Carol Oates (1999). “Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose”, Plume Books

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• Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Lying, Age, Forget

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• The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience extends a whole lifetime. But the intensity of certain vocalized language affects our bodies in a particular way, and that further actualization propels me. The Greeks explored this; there were very particular meters used in making war, different ones for a love chant.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Greek, Ark

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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