"Emily Dickinson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is, perhaps, the most gifted of American women poets. Emily Dickinson is more imaginative, but her utter scorn of form in composition makes her work, unique as it is, less satisfying. Mrs. Jackson was a favorite with Emerson, and he is said to have liked best among her ...
— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various
... life that books have a value for the individual. Public successes are never the greatest that men win. It is in the expansion and uplift of the inner self that books render their grandest service. Emily Dickinson wrote of such ...
— The Booklover and His Books • Harry Lyman Koopman |
