“Come with me this morning to the church within our hearts, where the bells are always ringing, and the preacher whose name is Love — shall
“We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.”
“Dickinson would frequently and deliberately reassign gender pronouns for herself and her beloveds, recasting her love in the acceptable male-female battery of desire. Throughout her life, she would often use the masculine in referring to herself — writing of her “boyhood,” signing letters to her cousins as “Brother Emily,” calling herself a “boy,” “prince,” “earl,” or “duke” in various poems, in one of which she unsexes herself in a violent transfiguration.”
“Again and again, she would tell all the truth but tell it slant, unmooring the gender of her love objects from the pronouns that befit their biology. Later in life, in flirting with the idea of publication, she would masculinize the pronouns in a number of her love poems — “bearded” pronouns, she called these — to fit the heteronormative mold, so that two versions of these poems exist: the earlier addressed to a female beloved, the later to a male.” (x)
Ok “James”, we see you know your history…
That was the loudest Betty speach!! She literally said she puts her stories and emotions in characters that are not so on the nose?! “What
“What if I could create character arcs and infuse my feelings and my stories into these characters but it would not be so on the nose?” 🤭
“I'm going to tell stories about characters. I'm going to infuse my emotions into these characters, let's be honest.” — Taylor during her betty speech on The Eras Tour in Tampa on April 15, 2023
