QuoteQuest“Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A circus passed the house — still I feel the red in my mind though the drums are out. [...] The lawn is full of south and the odors tangle, and I hear to-day for the first the river in the tree.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland (c. 1857); Letters, vol. 1 (1894) p. 171
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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
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