If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson
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Robert Browning - "If I felt physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." Robert Browning wrote this quote in 1855 to describe his love for great poetry. He clearly states that for him, poetry was not about the difficult and complicated language, but the beauty and brilliance that could be found in everyday life. This sentiment has been echoed many times by other poets and writers.

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  1. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens
  2. To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above. - Fernando Pessoa
  3. The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it. - Jane Kenyon
  4. Truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness - Nirmala
  5. Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. - Kahlil Gibran
More Quotes By Emily Dickinson
  1. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
  2. Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
  3. Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
  4. The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
  5. Till I loved I never lived.
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