If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know *that* is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know *that* is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

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Emily Dickinson. (2024, June 24). Wikiquote. Retrieved 23:30, October 22, 2024 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Emily_Dickinson&oldid=3536248.

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