 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?  The Review of Reviews - Page 453edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Emily Dickinson - Poets, American - 1906 - 492 pages
...strength to put on their clothes in the morning?" And this, ' a crowning extravaganza,' — ' If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no...the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?' After the visit she wrote : — [August, 1870.] Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs,... | |
 | Elocution - 1923 - 434 pages
...Emily Dickinson, "and it makes me so cold that no fire can warm me, I know it is poetry. If it makes me feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know it is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other?" Ruskin acknowledges that the... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Social sciences - 1919 - 474 pages
...Emily Dickinson once 'wrote, "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold that no fire will ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically...of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there no other way?" There are times when one turns from the perplexing theories more or less explanatory... | |
 | Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - 1922 - 632 pages
...of poetry as she expressed it to Colonel Higginson, who called it a "crowning extravaganza": "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no...are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way ?" One other way, at least, Emily Dickinson ; and I am not sure I can define it. I hear much talk about... | |
 | Marsden Hartley - Art - 1921 - 288 pages
...comes the "crowning extravaganza. ... If I read a book, and it makes my whole body so cold no fire will ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically...of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there any other way? These are the only ways I know it." No one but a New England yankee mind could... | |
 | Marsden Hartley - Art - 1921 - 282 pages
...must be! Paralysis, our primer dumb Unto vitality." Then comes the "crowning extravaganza. ... If I read a book, and it makes my whole body so cold no fire will ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken... | |
 | Martha Dickinson Bianchi - Poets, American - 1924 - 436 pages
...street, — how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning? If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no...are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? To the same [August, 1870] Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1925 - 442 pages
...detains the sky. And here, finally, is what she has to say to Colonel Higginson about poetry: If I read a book, and it makes my whole body so cold no...are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Edward Sapir FROM HAWAII Slants, by Clifford Gessler. The Star-Bulletin, Honolulu. The initials TH... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Shapiro, Henry Rago, Peter De Vries, Jessica North MacDonald, Marion Strobel - American poetry - 1925 - 746 pages
...detains the sky. And here, finally, is what she has to say to Colonel Higginson about poetry: If I read a book, and it makes my whole body so cold no...are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Edward Sapir Slants, by Clifford Gessler. The Star-Bulletin, Honolulu. The initials TH on Hawaiian... | |
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