Christopher Benfey Quotes

• Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine.

  Christopher Benfey

  Two, Path, Sometimes

  Christopher Benfey (2012). “Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival”, p.21, Penguin

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• Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

  Christopher Benfey

  People, World, Kind

  "Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, kclu.org. December 27, 2016.

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• Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.

  Christopher Benfey

  Christian, College, Purpose

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