In 1870, Emily Dickinson was said to describe poetry this way:
“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 way I know it. Is there any other way?”
And, then you read a book, that does exactly that.
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