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Quote by Emily Dickinson
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ev

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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. – 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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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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