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Emily Dickinson

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

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

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Akiroq Brost

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."

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"How these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written."

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"

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"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."

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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

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"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
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"Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest."
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"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."
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"I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie."
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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
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"The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue."
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"Wild Nights " Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile " the winds "To a heart in port "Done with the compass "Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden "Ah, the sea!Might I moor " Tonight "In thee!"
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"How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity."
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