Thursday, September 6, 2007

EMILY DICKINSON AND EMILY CARR (1830-1945) / CONTEMPORARIES OF MY GRANDMOTHERS AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS









Exultation is the going
Of an island soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity --


Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand,
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?


-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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"Scorned As Timber, Beloved of Sky"

-- Emily Carr (1871-1945)
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2 comments:

  1. The Solitary WalkerSeptember 6, 2007 at 9:18 AM

    I love Emily Dickinson. Emily Carr I did not know - so thanks for that. Some of her stuff reminds one of Van Gogh, "Le Douanier" Rousseau and others.

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  2. LorenSeptember 6, 2007 at 10:42 AM

    I didn't know about Emily Carr before, either. The painting you picked seemed one of her most dramatic paintings.

    Overall, she reminds me a lot of Grace Hudson from Northern California, particularly her painting of local Indians.

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