"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

Poetry, Clouds, Ecstasy

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"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

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Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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