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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I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – 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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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. – Sylvia Plath

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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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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. – Goldwin Smith

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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. – George Murray

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