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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Dickinson Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Dickinson Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Dickinson Quotes

Simon Van Booy

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

– Simon Van Booy

Sandi Toksvig

I’m slightly obsessed with women’s history, so I’d love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.

– Sandi Toksvig

Samantha Shannon

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

– Samantha Shannon

Rick Smolan

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

– Rick Smolan

Maurice Sendak

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson – she’s probably the top – Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

– Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

– Maurice Sendak

Marilynne Robinson

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

– Marilynne Robinson

Margo Jefferson

As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren’t anymore. I revered Yeats’s poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don’t go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again.

– Margo Jefferson

Mal Peet

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she’s both wonderful and dead.

– Mal Peet

Mal Peet

When I’m working, I always read stuff that’s as far away from what I’m working on as possible, so I’ll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

– Mal Peet

Kate Bernheimer

I love the idea of the ‘vignette,’ which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

– Kate Bernheimer

Jerome Charyn

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote ‘The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson’ in Emily’s own voice. I wasn’t trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.

– Jerome Charyn

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