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“. . . beneath the surface, Emily was trying to understand if writers were responsible for the feelings they prompted in others: if hurling a word had the same effect as throwing a stone. Was imagination—like a loaded gun—the one pulling the trigger?”

Writing Imagination Power Of Words Emily Dickinson

Book:These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

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“Home to her was much more. It was the wild terrain of her mind. A world of hummingbirds and crickets and alabaster and dots on a disc of snow. To Emily Dickinson, home was consciousness itself—a continent of language where metaphor was her native tongue.”

Home Consciousness Metaphor Emily Dickinson

Book:These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

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“Emily always turned to language to soothe or lessen her distress. The letters could have served as a reminder of the pain she had experienced, but survived. Whatever purpose she had in writing remained a secret known only to her. She never shied away from looking anguish in the eye or contemplating its aftermath. To do so was an act of dominion over misery and resistance to inertia.”

Writing Pain Resistance Emily Dickinson

Book:These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

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“Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah’s.”

Self Discovery Emily Dickinson Interiority Interior World

Book:These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

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“She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above.”

Heaven Heaven On Earth Emily Dickinson Questions Of Faith

Book:These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Source: These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson