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Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.

— Billy Collins

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✓Similar Perspectives

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

— Tom Verlaine

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

— Maurice Sendak

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

— Jerome Charyn

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

— Helen Vendler

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

— John Darnielle

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

— X. J. Kennedy

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

— Victor Hugo

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.

— Jerome Charyn

✗Opposing Perspectives

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

— Andy Richter

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

— Billy Collins