Emily Dickinson Quotes
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition. Edited by Ralph W. Franklin, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 280.
On New Year’s Day Floods began and in 1917 over 1 million acres of water soon were held in check by the levees. In April of 1918 the first Federal Levee at Cabin Teel breached. Nearly 1 million people had lost their homes. 325,000 people were made refugees in the worst Mississippi floods in recorded history. Not a year had elapsed from the time the system was declared safe. The Corps of Engineers was and is highly politicized in its decision making and operations and as such, cannot be relied upon as a professional engineering group despite several excellent engineers on their staff.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
