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

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Death
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Emily Dickinson
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I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch. – Emily Dickinson

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Bread
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Emily Dickinson
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. – George Oppen

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Poetry

As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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Poetry

We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. – Havelock Ellis

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Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication Ive ever seen. – Frank Luntz

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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. – Francis Ford Coppola

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People didnt have the political guts to stand up against an American war. – George McGovern

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