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Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there any other way?

Source: 1870, in The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1924.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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