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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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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. – Emily Dickinson

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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part. – Emily Dickinson

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant be much to it. – James Schuyler

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because were not getting those things from our communities or from each other. – Naomi Klein

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Poetry is a totally different art than film. – Stan Brakhage

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