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Quotes from Letter to T. W. Higginson — Emily Dickinson

1830–1886 United States

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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?

Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.