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Unread 03-16-2016, 04:47 PM
Gregory Palmerino Gregory Palmerino is offline
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Originally Posted by Susan McLean View Post
as soon as I first read their work, I felt that an electric shock had hit me, and I had to read everything they had written. (I am borrowing, of course, from Emily Dickinson's definition of poetry).
Susan, I agree. Here's the Dickinson quote: "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

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Greg
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