QuoteQuest“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?”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342a
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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
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