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Quote by Emily Dickinson
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on an

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. – Emily Dickinson

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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. – Emily Dickinson

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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