"Like a magician she caught the shadowy apparitions of her brain and tossed them in startling picturesqueness to her friends, who charmed with their simplicity and homeliness as well as profundity, fretted that she so easily made palpable the tantalizing fancies forever eluding their bungling, fretted grasp. " (Obituary)
Emily Dickinson was contemporary to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. With her honest indulgence into the souls of every man and also herself, she unlocked a poetic safe filled with wit and speech that became her communication.…
