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So that, while Dickinson's
dance of intensity, tension,

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and ecstasy is
what we celebrate,

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we must also admire her
sense of simple endurance.

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That white sustenance she
invokes with amazing strength,

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as well as in one
of her late poems,

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"1,762," where she
believes Elysium is there

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in a near room, but all we
can do is wait for signs.

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What fortitude
the soul contains,

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that it can so endure the accent
of a coming foot, the opening

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of a door.

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Emily Dickinson's
accents are her dance,

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her doors open, our
doors to wonders.

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I've tried to think
of her dance in terms

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of linguistic movement,
its partnership with images

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and place, with her conception
of self, with the lover,

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and with God or the infinite.

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But finally, it is the
dance of a life in words.

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It is a dance we all share.

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I hope you can learn from how
she steps it out with wildness,

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with exactitude,
and with courage.

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[APPLAUSE]

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