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| Emily Dickinson
drawings above & below by Barbara Cooney |
an Emily Dickinson mystery by Amanda Flower
320: "If you are a writer, a true writer, you can always write if only but a little. You thrive on it. You need it, and it needs you."
247: "Being paid for your work doen't necessarily make you a writer. Being able to contribute to the world in any manner of the written word, on the other hand, does."
In addition to deep thoughts of writerly introspection, this is also a novel of light-hearted speculation -- was Emily Dickinson a sleuth, investigating local crime; did she have a loyal made and confidante such as Willa; did she ever meet Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1850s?
Hope is the thing (and ceramic bird): 171, 179, 324
Out with lanterns: 268, 270, 317
Fame is a bee: 182
a beautiful slide show
of the Dickinson Homestead
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can 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?"
August 16, 1870
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