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BBC Mar 17 200202:54 pm
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know it is poetry. Is there any other way?”
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Mar 17 2002
02:54 pm
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know it is poetry. Is there any other way?”
—Emily Dickinson