When I state myself as the Representative of the Verse—it does not mean—me—but a supposed person.
—Emily Dickinson, letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862
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If I read a book it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever 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.
—Emily Dickinson (quoted by Higginson, Aug. 16, 1870, Letters, Vol. II, 473)
—Emily Dickinson (quoted by Higginson, Aug. 16, 1870, Letters, Vol. II, 473)
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