Emily Dickinson1830–1886If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342aIf I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342a
