Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! (One day late, sorry)

[CTyankee]

Here is one of my favorites:

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
Then crouch within the door—
Red—is the Fire's common tint—
But when the vivid Ore
Has vanquished Flame's conditions,
It quivers from the Forge
Without a color, but the light
Of unanointed Blaze.
Least Village has its Blacksmith
Whose Anvil's even ring
Stands symbol for the finer Forge
That soundless tugs—within—
Refining these impatient Ores
With Hammer, and with Blaze
Until the Designated Light
Repudiate the Forge—

[Mike03]

1. Lovely tribute.

She is a true treasure.

I think of her suffering, and her aloneness, and can't help but wonder if many millions of Americans could relate to her if they knew more about her. Her life certainly resonates with me, in the general way that it could possibly resonate with many modern citizens in this nation tending more and more towards pressing us into isolated shells.

Thank you for your post.

[CTyankee]

6. Oh Mike, how true you are!

Your post was so striking to me because you found what I did in her and continue to do. I posted her poem "Dare you..." more as a "come on" to her poetry to people who had never read her before just as a way of getting them to understand her. Somamy people miss her passion!

Thanks to you for your wonderful understanding of her lovely verse!

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Dickinson is a true American classic!

Really, she is one of the greatest poets! I have too many favs to pick from!

[CTyankee]

7. Here is another of mine!

I dwell in Possibility--
A fairer House than Prose--
More numerous of Windows--
Superior--for Doors--

Of Chambers as the Cedars--
Impregnable of Eye--
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky--

Of Visitors--the fairest--
For Occupation--This--
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise--

[Mark Twain Girl]

3. I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

(K&R)

[NV Whino]

4. I don't think she will notice it's late.

[madfloridian]

5. This has stuck in my mind. Don't know the source.

"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. "
Emily Dickinson

[CTyankee]

8. Lovely. I hadn't heard that one. I did a major paper on her in grad school

and an essay in my final project for my MA in Liberal STudies. I love encountering these quotes that I missed in my studies, because they are so wonderful

Thanks so much for it!