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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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Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit – Life! – 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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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved. – Emily Dickinson

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. – Saul Williams

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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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[P]oetry… the spontaneous fusion of hitherto unrelated words. Such things must take place in your own head, by your own chemistry. – Marie Emilie Gilchrist (1893–1989), Writing Poetry: Suggestions for Young

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