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

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It is easy to give in,
but tough to be strong.

Nandita Shailesh Shanbhag

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Life

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Henry David Thoreau

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The power of your imagination
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than any attempt
to represent it.

Mitchell Browder

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Poetry
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ideal replica
of beauty.

Randy Vernezze

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