“His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.” MenMindSecretCarrie Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.” DoeStoriesTurnsSecretStorytellingCarrieBottlesTidesBlankStorytellerAdequateFervent Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.” IfsLanguageGivenWaterSimpleSecretClearMysteriousCarrieThirstBucketsGallons Author:Jane Hirshfield