"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." ― Emily Dickinson Topic(s): Poetry More From Emily Dickinson "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry." "Beauty is not caused. It is." "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." More In Poetry "I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."― Isaac Rosenberg "To have great poets, there must be great audiences."― Walt Whitman "Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."― Walter Jon Williams