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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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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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Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

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Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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