30Days30Poets: Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”
Emily Dickinson (1830–86) once defined poetry this way: “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”
Dickinson’s elliptical poem 1129, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” (1868), often affects readers … Read more »
