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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, née le 10 décembre 1830 et morte le 15 mai 1886, est une poétesse américaine. Née à Amherst dans le Massachusetts, dans une famille aisée ayant des liens communautaires forts, elle a vécu une vie introvertie et recluse. Après avoir étudié dans sa jeunesse, durant sept ans à l'académie d’Amherst, elle vit un moment au séminaire féminin du mont Holyoke avant de retourner dans la maison familiale à Amherst. Considérée comme une excentrique par le voisinage, on la connaît pour son penchant pour les vêtements blancs et pour sa répugnance à recevoir des visiteurs, voire plus tard à sortir de sa chambre. La plupart de ses amitiés seront donc entretenues par correspondance.

Bien qu’ayant écrit beaucoup, moins d’une douzaine de ses presque mille huit cents poèmes ont été publiés de son vivant. Ceux qui furent publiés alors étaient généralement modifiés par les éditeurs afin de se conformer aux règles poétiques de l’époque. Les poèmes de Dickinson sont uniques pour leur époque : ils sont constitués de vers très courts, n’ont pas de titres et utilisent fréquemment des rimes imparfaites et des majuscules et une ponctuation non conventionnelle. Un grand nombre de ses poèmes traitent de la mort et de l’immortalité, des sujets récurrents dans sa correspondance avec ses amis.

Même si la plupart de ses connaissances devaient savoir qu’Emily Dickinson écrivait, l’étendue de son œuvre ne fut connue qu’après sa mort, en 1886, quand Lavinia, sa plus jeune sœur, découvre sa cachette de poèmes. Son premier recueil est publié en 1890 par des relations personnelles, Thomas Wentworth Higginson et Mabel Loomis Todd, qui en altéreront fortement le contenu. Ce n’est qu’avec l’édition de Thomas H. Johnson en 1955, Les poèmes d’Emily Dickinson , que paraît pour la première fois un recueil complet et pratiquement intact de son travail. Malgré des critiques défavorables et un grand scepticisme vis-à-vis de ses performances littéraires de la fin du XIXe siècle au début du XXe siècle, les critiques anglo-saxons considèrent à présent Emily Dickinson comme une poétesse américaine majeure,. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. décembre 1830 – 15. mai 1886  •  Autres noms Emily Dickinsonová, Emily Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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“Le monde est oval. On apprend l’eau par la soif, et la terre par le voyage en mer; la passion par les affres, et la paix par les récits de guerre; l’amour par la mort, et les oiseaux par l’hiver.”

Emily Dickinson

“Les Étais soutiennent la Maison
Jusqu'à ce que la Maison soit achevée
Puis les Étais se retirent
Et adéquate, droite,
La Maison se tient seule
Et ne se souvient plus
Du Foret et du Charpentier -
Telle est exactement l'expérience rétrospective
D'une Vie accomplie -
Un Passé de Planche et de Clou
Et de lenteur - puis tombent les échafaudages
Et s'affirme une Âme”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Nous fuyons son Visage d'autant plus que nous l'apprécions
De peur que l'ineffable disgrâce de la vision
Entache Notre Adoration”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Se remémorer
Un Plaisir qui nous fut Retiré -
Offre une Félicité comparable à un Meurtre -
Omnipotente - Aiguë -

Nous ne lâcherons pas le Poignard -
Car Nous aimons la Blessure
Que le Poignard Commémore - c'est Lui
Qui Nous rappelle que Nous avons péri”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Certains trop fragiles pour les vents d'hiver
La tombe prévenante les enserre -
Les bordant tendrement, les protégeant du gel
Avant que leurs pieds ne prennent froid -

Jamais de son nid
La tombe prudente n'expose ses trésors
Construisant là où les écoliers n'osent regarder,
ni les chasseurs s'aventurer.

Cet abri à tous les enfants
D'âge tendre, souvent glacés,
Les moineaux négligés par le Père -
Les agneaux pour qui le temps n'a pas eu de bercail.”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“L'Herbe a si peu à faire,
Une Sphère de simple Vert -
N'ayant qu'à couver les Papillons,
Et tenir compagnie aux Abeilles -

Et se balancer tout le jour sur de jolies chansons
Que les brises vont chercher,
Et tenir le Soleil, dans son giron,
Et faire des courbettes à tout,

Et enfiler les Rosées toute la nuit, comme des Perles,
Et se faire si belle
Qu'une Duchesse, serait trop ordinaire
Pour qu'on la remarque comme elle,

Et même quand elle meurt, périr
En odeurs si divines -
Comme d'humbles épices, couchées, endormies -
Ou comme le Nard indien qui expirant s'exhale -

Et puis habiter dans Granges Royales,
Occuper ses Journées à rêver,
L'Herbe a si peu à faire,
Je voudrais être - Foin”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Ma Rivière coule vers Toi -
Mer bleue - Veux-tu m'accueillir?

Ma Rivière attend une réponse.
Ô Mer - montre-toi bienveillante!

J'irai te chercher des Ruisseaux
Dans des vallons diaprés -

Allez Mer - tu me prends?”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Un Mot gribouillé sans réfléchir sur une Page
Peut stimuler un Œil
Quand enveloppé dans les plis de l'éternité
Son Auteur Ridé reposera

L'Infection se développe dans la phrase
Nous pouvons inhaler le Désespoir
Comme, venant du fond des Siècles,
La Malaria”

Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson: Citations en anglais

“Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit,—Life!”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 25
Collected Poems (1993)

“I took my power in my hand
And went against the world;
’T was not so much as David had,
But I was twice as bold.

I aimed my pebble, but myself
Was all the one that fell.
Was it Goliath was too large,
Or only I too small?”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 33
Collected Poems (1993)

“The sweets of Pillage can be known
To no one but the Thief,
Compassion for Integrity
Is his divinest Grief.”

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Emily Dickinson

The Single Hound, p. 299
Collected Poems (1993)

“More than the Grave is closed to me —
The Grave and that Eternity
To which the Grave adheres —
I cling to nowhere till I fall —
The Crash of nothing, yet of all —
How similar appears”

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Emily Dickinson More than the Grave is closed to me —

1503: More than the Grave is closed to me —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“The blunder is to estimate,—
“Eternity is Then,”
We say, as of a station.
Meanwhile he is so near,
He joins me in my ramble,
Divides abode with me,
No friend have I that so persists
As this Eternity.”

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Emily Dickinson

The Single Hound, p. 261
Collected Poems (1993)

“A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,
A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,
A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home
And so the Night became.”

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Emily Dickinson The Crickets sang

1104: The Crickets sang
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me —
The simple News that Nature told —
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see —
For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen —
Judge tenderly — of Me”

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Emily Dickinson This is my letter to the World

441: This is my letter to the World
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“If Aims impel these Astral Ones
The ones allowed to know
Know that which makes them as forgot
As Dawn forgets them — now”

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Emily Dickinson The Moon upon her fluent Route

1528: The Moon upon her fluent Route
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone —
A Whip so small you could not see it
I've known

To lash the Magic Creature
Till it fell,
Yet that Whip's Name
Too noble then to tell.

Magnanimous as Bird
By Boy descried —
Singing unto the Stone
Of which it died —

Shame need not crouch
In such an Earth as Ours —
Shame — stand erect —
The Universe is yours.”

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Emily Dickinson

1304: Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity”

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Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death

712: Because I could not stop for Death —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“It ’s such a little thing to weep,
So short a thing to sigh;
And yet by trades the size of these
We men and women die!”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 50
Collected Poems (1993)

“Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled—he did not fall—
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes—
He neutralized them all.

She stung him, sapped his firm advance,
But, when her worst was done,
And he, unmoved, regarded her,
Acknowledged him a man.”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 60
Collected Poems (1993)

“It might be easier
To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
To perish of delight.”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 69
Collected Poems (1993)

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers —
That perches in the soul —
And sings the tune without the words —
And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard —
And sore must be the storm —
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm — ”

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Emily Dickinson Hope is a subtle Glutton

254: "Hope" is the thing with feathers —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.”

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Emily Dickinson

Nature, p. 110
Collected Poems (1993)

“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.”

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Emily Dickinson

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=EsovAQAAMAAJ&q=%22God+is+sitting+here+looking+into+my+very+soul+to+see+if+I+think+right+thoughts+Yet+I+am+not+afraid+for+I+try+to+be+right+and%22&pg=PA39#v=onepage to Abiah Root http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/abiah_root (29 January 1850)

“Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God’s residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 54
Collected Poems (1993)

“The grass so little has to do,—
A sphere of simple green,
With only butterflies to brood,
And bees to entertain,

And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the sunshine in its lap
And bow to everything;

And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine,-
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.

And even when it dies, to pass
In odors so divine,
As lowly spices gone to sleep,
Or amulets of pine.

And then to dwell in sovereign barns,
And dream the days away,—
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were a hay!”

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Nature, p. 112
Collected Poems (1993)

“Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass.”

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Emily Dickinson

Nature, p. 118
Collected Poems (1993)

“A Grave — is a restricted Breadth —
Yet ampler than the Sun —
And all the Seas He populates
And lands he looks upon

To Him who on its small Repose
Bestows a single Friend —
Circumference without Relief —
Or Estimate — or End”

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Emily Dickinson

943: A Coffin — is a small Domain,
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“That such have died enables us
The tranquiller to die;
That such have lived, certificate
For immortality.”

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Emily Dickinson

Time and Eternity, p. 228
Collected Poems (1993)

“It tossed and tossed,—
A little brig I knew,—
O'ertook by blast,
It spun and spun,
And groped delirious, for morn.

It slipped and slipped,
As one that drunken stepped;
Its white foot tripped,
Then dropped from sight.

Ah, brig, good-night
To crew and you;
The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue,
To break for you.”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 30
Collected Poems (1993)

“Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him.
As nature’s curtain fell
The one who bore him tottered in,
For this was woman’s son.
“’T was all I had,” she stricken gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Source: Collected Poems (1993), p. 56. Life.

“I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.”

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Emily Dickinson I took one Draught of Life

1725: I took one Draught of Life —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man.
It hurls its barbed syllables,—
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
The most accomplished shot!
Time’s sublimest target
Is a soul “forgot”!”

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Emily Dickinson

Love, p. 170
Collected Poems (1993)

“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
In Corners — till a Day
The Owner passed — identified —
And carried Me away —

And now We roam in Sovereign Woods —
And now We hunt the Doe —
And every time I speak for Him —
The Mountains straight reply —”

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Emily Dickinson My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun

754: My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —
To tell one's name — the livelong June —
To an admiring Bog!”

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Emily Dickinson

288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?; In some editions "June" has been altered to "day".
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by term.

Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet reluctant led.
Before were cities, but between,
The forest of the dead.

Retreat was out of hope,—
Behind, a sealed route,
Eternity's white flag before,
And God at every gate.”

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Emily Dickinson

Time and Eternity, p. 213
Collected Poems (1993)

“Mine enemy is growing old,—
I have at last revenge.
The palate of the hate departs;
If any would avenge,—

Let him be quick, the viand flits,
It is a faded meat.
Anger as soon as fed is dead;
’T is starving makes it fat.”

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Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 38
Collected Poems (1993)

“Immortal is an ample word
When what we need is by,
But when it leaves us for a time,
’T is a necessity.

Of heaven above the firmest proof
We fundamental know,
Except for its marauding hand,
It had been heaven below.”

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Emily Dickinson

Time and Eternity, p. 234
Collected Poems (1993)

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