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Quote by Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any cour

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elfs Catacomb? – Emily Dickinson

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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. – Mark Strand

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

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