My Favorite Emily
Filed under: Book Slut - November 1, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
I love that Emily Dickinson is such an enigma to all the prying academics. They’re constantly debating about why she stayed home so much, if she was a recluse, if she was a virgin, if she was bisexual or gay, if she got it on with her sister-in-law, and even if she was incontinent! Here’s one of my favorite poems by her (she wrote 1789!), as well as two most fabulous quotes. Word.
Come slowly, Eden!
Lips unused to thee,
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars –enters,
And is lost in balms!
“The Truth must dazzle gradually/Or every man be blind.”
“The Heart wants what it wants–or else it does not care–”
