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Quote by Emily Dickinson
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I kn

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. – Emily Dickinson

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