Emily Dickinson · The source reads: “If you were here — and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us, and your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language.” · Dickinson to Susan Gilbert, away teaching in Baltimore, in a letter of June 11, 1852.
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Emily Dickinson · The source reads: “That I did always love / I bring thee Proof / That till I loved / I never lived — Enough —” · From a four-line poem of about 1863 offering love as the proof of being alive; the 1896 printing softened the last line to "I did not love enough."
Emily Dickinson · The opening of "Heart, we will forget him!"; the speaker gives her heart orders to forget, and the poem ends admitting the mind will remember him first.
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