I love to read and write poetry. I went through a very emotional phase in grade school that inspired quite a few poems about myself. Do you write or read poetry?
I do. I love Emily Dickinson. Her poems are beautiful. She was born in 1830 and died in 1886.
So young. I feel like a lot of those classic artists died young. 
Yes they did. She had a prominent family but was ultimately a recluse and lived in isolation.
I did not know that about her family or about her. I wonder if she was disgusted or embarrassed by her family, or if it had nothing to do with them and she was just an introvert...
and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence.
While Dickinson was a prolific poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The poems published then were usually edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules. Her poems were unique to her era. They contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional
I should say I wanted to write poetry in the beginning because I had fallen in love with words. The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes and before I could read them for myself I had come to love the words of them. The words alone. What the words stood for was of a very secondary importance ... I fell in love, that is the only expression I can think of, at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour