The Obligation to Enchantment | A letter by Emily Dickinson to Sarah Tuckerman, 1878
Sarah Tuckerman,1832-1915 August 1878 To see is perhaps never quite the sorcery that it is to surmise, though the obligation...
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There came a Day at Summer’s full | A poem by Emily Dickinson, 1861-62
Lydia Borgek, Syra, 1914 There came a Day at Summer’s full,Entirely for me —I thought that such were for the...
I like thinking of myself as invisible | Tom Verlaine, 1949-2023
Tom Verlaine, 1949-2023 Influences "I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade." "It's...
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act | A poem by Emily Dickinson, 1860
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1961 Crumbling is not an instant's ActA fundamental pauseDilapidation's processesAre organized Decays — 'Tis first a Cobweb...
On [:] Poetry | Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1870
Carl Larsson, Portrait of Dora Lamm, 1900 “If I read a book it makes my whole body so cold no...
Book Covers | Illustrations by Edward Gorey (1959 – 1964)
Henry James, Lady Barberina and Other Tales, 1961 P. M. Hubbard, Picture of Millie, 1964...
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! | Emily Dickinson, 1861
Emily Dickinson "Wild nights" manuscript . Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our...
One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted | Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
Grandma Moses, Halloween, 1955 . One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house;...
Childish hope | Emily Dickinson, 1858
W. Eugene Smith, 1941. "I have a childish hope to gather all I love together and sit down beside and...
Letter to Mary Haven | Emily Dickinson, 1859
Max Ernst, Two sisters, 1926 13 Feburary 1859 Dear Mrs Haven. Your remembrance surprises me. I hardly feel entitled to...