Historians: there is very little evidence that Emily Dickinson was bisexual.
Emily Dickinson: *spends 40 year relationship sending Susan Gilbert 300+ poems and letters only ever takes her advice on poetry*
Emily Dickinson: *tells Susan on two separate occasions that she worships her more than god in new england in the 1860's*
Emily Dickinson: " I miss my biggest heart; my own goes wandering round, and calls for Susie —"
Emily Dickinson: "Susie, forgive me Darling, for every word I say — my heart is full of you, none other than you is in my thoughts, yet when I seek to say to you something not for the world, words fail me. If you were here — and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us, and your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language —"
Emily Dickinson: "Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night
Had scarcely deigned to lie—
When, stirring, for Belief's delight,
My Bride had slipped away—"
Emily Dickinson: "I tore open your letter and licked the envelope's seal for any lingering trace of you"
Emily Dickinson:“To own a Susan of my own
Whatever realm I forfeit lord,
Emily Dickinson:“Who loves you most?
And thinks of you when others rest?
-also in a letter to Susan
Emily Dickinson: "Never mind the letter, Susie; you have so much to do; just write me every week one line, and let it be, "Emily," I love you," and I will be satisfied! Your own Emily"
Emily Dickinson: *has to reassure a publisher that when she writes poems about loving women from a first person perspective shes using poetic license to write as a dude*
Historians: "There is very little evidence..."
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