»	Quote DBAuthorsCategoriesSpeechesSearchMy Quote List

Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generator add quote of the day, random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes)

Quote DB :: Authors :: Emily Dickinson :: View Quote View Quote "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Emily Dickinson Listed in: Poetry Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.67  Rate Quote 3 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Emily Dickinson "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." "Beauty is not caused. It is." "Forever is composed of nows." "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." "How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!" Top 5 quotes from Poetry "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." "The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

» Copyright © QuoteDB 2005

Quotes to your site Links Privacy