Oh lord what a beauty!

I now understand why Emily Dickinson is so praised and is highly regarded. Her work is absolutely amazing! I really want to read a lot more poetry, as I’ve read a lot of poems and listened to a lot of spoken word but I haven’t read many poetry collections and I want to change that. I love poetry as a medium to express raw and personal ideas, struggles etc. So in the future you will definitely be seeing me read more poetry. Dickinson’s poetry feels so timeless and What I think makes her work so t...

“𝓐𝓼 𝓲𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓮,𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓪 𝓴𝓮𝔂;𝓐𝓷𝓭 '𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽, 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮,𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓭,𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼, 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭,𝓞𝓻 𝓰𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓼, 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓾𝓶𝓷 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓼,𝓡𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭.”I love the style of Emily's poems so much, they are very deep and with a good dose of melancholy, which becomes more realistic and you can imagine writing those passages. It is something impressive, I’m truly impressed. I’ve started reading her poems m...

Another of my mother's favorite poets. I love Emily Dickinson because she writes personally, simply, yet beautifully descriptive. I recommend her to all hungering souls! One quoted often by Mom is "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..." For musicians, some of her poems have been set in trio arrangements. Lots of fun to sing!

While not a definitive collection by any means, this collection is very lovingly edited. Some of Dickinson's more interesting meditations on pain, time, and the body are featured in here, and their arrangement creates a lovely conversation. It's small size makes it the perfect travel companion. My edition is dog-eared, pencil-lined, and well-worn.

'I many times thought Peace had comeWhen Peace was far away - As Wrecked Men - deem they sight the Land -At Centre of the Sea -And struggle slacker - but to proveAs hopelessly as I -How many the fictitious ShoresBefore the Harbor be -'Yes, yes, yes. This is the first poetry book I've read, and I absolutely loved it. Gave me chills all down my spine over and over.

Again, doesn't have to be this edition, but my Dickenson and my Wordsworth sit side by side on my shelf of necessary-to-living books. Her poetry is the most insightful and soul-wrenching use of language, and it moves me deeply.

"Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!The Apple on the Tree—Provided it do hopeless—hang—That—"He aven" is—to Me!The Color, on the Cruising Cloud—The interdicted Land—Behind the Hill—the House behind—There—Paradise—is found!Her teasing Purples—Afternoons—The credulous—decoy—Enamored—of the Conjuror—That spurned us—Yesterday!

I had to read a book of poetry for a reading challenge this year. I admit to not being especially savvy when it comes to understanding the true meaning of many poems, but I took poetry in college, and I had a done decent job of explicating "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," so I figured what the heck. Also, my physician once told me that she had experienced gnosis, and actually wrote a book of his own regarding her spirituality and the Bible, or something along those lines. A lot of it is sti...

this is a teeny tiny book that fits in your back pocket. this is also the first time i've actually really read emily d. maybe in high school, but i was a smart-ass kid and probably skimmed her works thinking they did not pertain to me. well, they do!! she is wonderful. her poems are swift and sharp. i carry this book with me everywhere and have read through it hundreds of times. the portability of it makes it my best friend, and the depth of it makes it a great thinking companion.

Emily Dickinson is a very descriptive poeter to read. Her grammar and style is very old, making it hard for the new generations to read and understand. She kept building on her courage so she could face herself. She writes about the simplicity, of her personal stories, yet has a beautiful and challenging description. She has her own style of not only writing, but the way she looks at life. Its a great book to read that gives you a different perspective, if your up for a challenge.

when i keep this book in my back pocket, it looks like i own a wallet. brenda hillman did a fine job of selecting ms. dickinson's poems. this is the most beat-up and worn-out book i own, but i'm still holding out hope it lasts forever.

the pocket classic does violence to Dickinson. One can safely say that anyone providing a positive review of this is actively harming poetry with thoughtlessness. This symbolizes what kills writing, and has no resemblance to the author's poems. Shelve it under pulp or "recycle bin."

I remember one of the reviews said it was like jewels. It is. When I read it each poem was like this little jewel that you could just cherish. Absolutely loved it!

In early days of nanowripo (Ah! I don't think I have spelled it correctly), one day was dedicated to Emily Dickenson's poetry style and I was very impressed to read her one of the famous poems: Hope is the thing with feathers. Now having read pretty much of them, I think she has an amazing art to describe a simple noun like 'patience, hope, smile, pain' in a variety of wonderful ways. The way she describes 'expanded time and smile's exertion' is mind blowing. Anyone who love poetry must try read...

SHE IS AMAZING !! -Selected Poems--That it will never come again -Forever is composed of nows-Saying nothing sometimes says the most.-A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day-Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.-I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine

What I learned: I don't get it. I understand it was probably still huge to see a woman poet in her time about fifty years after Jane Austen, but I just don't see anything spectacular in this poetry! Topically: the styles don't do the ideas justice. As for the executions--boring. I want to be led and teased, dipped and climaxed; her poems all feel cut by the same carving of safe pacing and safe, prominently religious, ideas. They're quick, which is a plus--usually. They rhyme, which is definitely...

Because everyone could use a little of this in their pocket:TO make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,— One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.

"I YEARS had been from home" and "I MEASURE every grief I meet" are my all-time Dickinson favourites.

Setting SailExultation is the goingOf an inland soul to sea,Past the houses, past the headlands,Into deep eternity!Bred as we, among the mountains,Can the sailor understandThe divine intoxicationOf the first league out from land?