Emily Dickinson Quotes About Poetry

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

    Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

    " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20
  • 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 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?

    Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
  • If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

    Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
  • There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

    "There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)
  • To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

    Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press
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