1.from Dickinson With Love -

She viewed love as the "exponent of breath," the very math by which existence is measured.

"From Dickinson With Love" explores the profound, often enigmatic landscape of Emily Dickinson’s heart, a space defined by "electric" correspondence and a radical reimagining of intimacy. While she is often mythologized as a "New England Nun," her letters and poems reveal a woman whose capacity for love was neither quiet nor secondary; instead, it was a force she described as "anterior to life, posterior to death". The Central Muse: Susan Gilbert 1.From Dickinson With Love

Emily once wrote to Susan, "We are the only poets, and everyone else is prose," signaling a deep intellectual and emotional union that transcended typical 19th-century friendships. She viewed love as the "exponent of breath,"

Much of her "love" was expressed through the lens of absence. She masterfully articulated the "intense experience of suffering and alienation" that comes when the object of one's love is out of reach. The Master Letters and Late Devotion The Central Muse: Susan Gilbert Emily once wrote