Emily Dickinson — "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I …"

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever 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 ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Emily Dickinson — Emily Dickinson Modern · Poetry

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Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Date: c. 1862

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