Date: September, 1838
"The tree of my mind of its leaves is stripped, my witticisms too fine are clipped, the kernel out of the shell has been nipped."
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Date: September, 1843
"In Germany, everything is forcibly suppressed; a real anarchy of the mind, the reign of stupidity itself, prevails there, and Zurich obeys orders from Berlin."
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Date: Late Autumn, 1882
"A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)