Emily Dickinson

I enjoyed reading some of her poems, a lot of them are hard to understand but there were some that really spoke to me and I got what she was saying. She really seemed to speak from things she felt or had experienced, and while she did seem to talk about death and mortality a lot I never got the feeling of it being too morbid.

I feel like Emily Dickinson says more in few words than some people say with a lot of words. In the above quote, this says so much in just one sentence and it applies to a lot of people. I thought about my daughter when I read this, she is very artistic, my niece is very athletic, in my family sports is everything, not to me, but to my immediate family. When my daughter would get a hit, or catch a ball, the smallest victory for her was sweeter than the big win of people who expected to win. This is what I mean when I say I don't get a lot of what Emily is saying, but when I do, I really get it, and it really means something to me.