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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Quotation #54601

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From Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi [1866–1943], Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [1924]

Source: From Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi [1866–1943], Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [1924]
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