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Poetry Quotes by Emily Dickinson
- Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul
- 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.
- There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
- If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I…
- PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
- The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
- To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
- When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing, Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry,…
- Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.…
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