Home » Quote » Emily Dickinson » „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 read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.“ — Emily Dickinson Tags:BooksReading Related quotes „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 „Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.“ — Jane Austen „Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.“ — Colette „If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.“ — Carl Sagan „Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages, and while I was chiefly interested at that time in philosophy, I read a little poetry too; and I know that my own poetry shows the influence of Indian thought and sensibility.“ — T.S. Eliot „Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you.“ — William Saroyan
„If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.“ — Emily Dickinson Tags:BooksReading