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Date: 1850
"My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1850
"The characters of the narrative would not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: Late Autumn, 1882
"A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
