Reads tagged with “Emily Dickinson”
Emily Dickinson’s Revolutionary and Reclusive Life, in a Lyrical Picture-Book from the Lacuna Between Fact and Myth
…and one of the loveliest definitions of what poetry is.
The Universe in Verse 2019: Full Show
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
The Universe in Verse 2018: Full Show
An evening of poems celebrating science, read by beloved artists, writers, scientists, and musicians.
The Best of Brain Pickings 2018
The splendors of the unknown, the uncertain, and the unclassifiable, truth and beauty at the intersection of poetry and science, the timeless tangles of the heart.
Figuring
A book.
How the World Holds Together: Patti Smith Reads Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Premonition of Particle Physics
A rhapsody of wonder between the scale of atoms and the scale of minds.
Spring with Emily Dickinson
“Today is very beautiful — just as bright, just as blue, just as green and as white, and as crimson, as the cherry trees full in bloom, and the half opening peach blossoms, and the grass just waving, and sky and hill and cloud, can make it, if they try…”
Advice on Writing from Emily Dickinson’s Editor
“Oftentimes a word shall speak what accumulated volumes have labored in vain to utter: there may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence.”
Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert
“Come with me this morning to the church within our hearts, where the bells are always ringing, and the preacher whose name is Love — shall intercede for us!”
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