She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.

Rachel Klein
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Emily Dickinson is known for writing poetry about many things, but the very first poem she ever wrote was about a young girl named "Emily". She had only recently moved into her house in Amherst, Massachusetts (at age 11) and was struck by the idea of this woman "going where she pleases, appearing unhoped for, uncalled for. Her thoughts move through minds, moving through eyes. Her dreams enter into dreams.

She vanishes and is still there." This is the first poem Emily Dickinson ever wrote (in 1845). When you think about it, it's rather prophetic. For instance, Emily Dickinson saw herself as both the narrator of the poem and the character it describes very clearly.

Source: The Moth Diaries

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