Body Quote by Emily Dickinson

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

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

— Emily Dickinson

“Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin. That's all…

— Melody Lee

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

— Wallace Stevens

When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good…

— Thomas Watson

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel…

— Aaron Belz

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Im a PAPER, u cn write ur felings, scrible ur angr, use me 2 absorb tears. Dont thrw me after use bt v n…

— Butterfly_Kisses

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just…

— Kevin Powers