My Emily Dickinson Quotes

“Edwards’s stark presentation of the immanent consciousness of Separation enters the structure of her poems. Each word is a cipher, through its sensible sign another sign hidden. The recipient of a letter, or combination of letter and poem from Emily Dickinson, was forced much like Edwards’ listening congregation, through shock and through subtraction of the ordinary, to a new way of perceiving. Subject and object were fused at that moment, into the immediate feeling of understanding. This re-ordering of the forward process of reading is what makes her poetry and the prose of her letters among the most original writing of her century.”
― Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson

“A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.”
― Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson

“Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.”
― Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson