"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 "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." "To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." "They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity." More In Poetry "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."― John Fowles "The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."― June Jordan "I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else – problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff."― Laura Linney