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🇺🇸Emily Dickinson

Literature

1830–1886

"Dickinson on Poets.org Biography, related essays, and reading guides, from the Academy of American Poets"

🇬🇧Kim Wilde

Music

b. 1960

"Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control."

🇬🇧Gertrude Jekyll

Art

1843–1932

"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives."

"I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality"

🇺🇸Jamaica Kincaid

Literature

b. 1949

"I don’t like to hear people speaking in my work. I like reading it, and I marvel at people who can do it well. And there’s something when you see it done well. It’s just so terrific. But I’m not able to do it."

🇬🇧Vita Sackville-West

Literature

Bloomsbury Group

1892–1962

"I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all."

🇬🇧William Shenstone

Literature

1714–1763

"Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key."

🇬🇧John Evelyn

Literature

1620–1706

"He was universally belov'd, Hospitable, Generous, Learned in many things, skill'd in Musick, a very greate Cherisher of Learned men of whom he had the conversation."