Status Updates From The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Reading ED is like being confronted with Ingenuity itself… I make myself slow to fully appreciate her ability to render incomplete all the incompleteness subjectivity Bestows. I can’t decide if I’m obsessed or merely attuned to ED’s particulars.

“Cousin Pliny says he ‘might stay around a month, visiting old acquaintances – if it were’nt for his business.’
Fortunate for us indeed, that his business feels the need of him, or I think he would never go. He is kind of a compound of [names of three men], so you will easily guess how much we enjoy his society.“

“. . . I think of the grave very often, and how much it has got of mine, and whether I can ever stop it from carrying off what I love; that makes me sometimes speak of it, when I dont intend.”