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Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Billy Collins Emily Emily Dickinson Jane Like Loud Out Poetry Read Walt

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No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

~Andy Richter

Topics: Any Emily Emily Dickinson Know Poems

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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Brothers Cartoons Emily Emily Dickinson Imagination Influential Melodies More Than Think Tunes Warner Were I Think

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Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Beats Because Common Emily Emily Dickinson Every Every Time Followed Four Line Meter Much Pretty Rather Same Seems She Tame Three Time Uses

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Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Bows Complexity Developed Emily Emily Dickinson Example Good Her Like Little Loyal Never Package Persona Remained Rhymes Same She Simple Song Stead Stood Striking Within

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The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.

~David Hepworth

Topics: Ball Barbecue Cuisine Emily Emily Dickinson Food Great Idaho Immigrants Kitchen Rituals Rural Sisters Society Staggering Through Unbelievable Variety Via

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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

~Francesca Lia Block

Topics: Also Anne Cerebral Emily Emily Dickinson Influence Introduced Like Love Monthly More Parents Poetry Poets Teenager Who I Love

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I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.

~Freja Beha Erichsen

Topics: Dinner Down Emily Emily Dickinson Enjoy Good Harvey Like Mind Sit Strong Strong Women Think Virginia Women Woolf Would I Think

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