This quote is often attributed online to a letter from Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law, Catherine May Scott. But that might be apocryphal — and the felicitation might date as far back as Plato.
Ali Jane Smith gives us an excellent breakdown here at the Sydney Review of Books.
Emily Dickinson.
The original of the only authenticated photograph of poet Emily Dickinson is held by the Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College. Probably taken in Amherst, MA between December 10, 1846 and late March 1847, when Dickinson was 16 years old, though scholars continue to debate the exact details. (Wikimedia Commons)
“When the best is gone, I know that other things are not of consequence –- the heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.”
— Emily Dickinson
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Wild nights – Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile – the winds –
To a Heart in port –
Done with the Compass –
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden –
Ah – the Sea!
Might I but moor – tonight –
In thee!
With her imagination, think of the constructs she could create.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 