Muriel Rukeyser on Emily Dickinson

“Emily Dickinson's strictness, sometimes almost a slang of strictness, speaks with an intellectually active, stimulated quick music.”

“Emily Dickinson, whose unappeasable thirst for fame was itself unknown for years after her death, had to fight through her family-"Vesuvius at home"-until a miserable lawsuit and the theft of a manure pile interrupted the posthumous publication of her work, and postponed for forty-nine years what may be her finest book.”