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.
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789 On a Columnar Self— How ample to rely In Tumult—or Extremity— How good the Certainty
Me prove it now—Whoever doubt Me stop to prove it—now— Make haste—the Scruple! Death be… For Opportunity— The River reaches to my feet—
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
71 A throe upon the features— A hurry in the breath— An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death”—
No matter—now—Sweet— But when I’m Earl— Won’t you wish you’d spoken To that dull Girl? Trivial a Word—just—
Part One: Life LIV EXPERIMENT to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel?
199 I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that— That other state— I’m Czar—I’m “Woman” now— It’s safer so—
The nearest dream recedes, unreali… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race;
642 Me from Myself — to banish — Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart —
859 A doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
61 Papa above! Regard a Mouse O’erpowered by the Cat! Reserve within thy kingdom
Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is done; When that which is and that which…
Growth of Man—like Growth of Nat… Gravitates within— Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it— Bit it stir—alone— Each—its difficult Ideal
32 When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, And Violets are done— When Bumblebees in solemn flight Have passed beyond the Sun—
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—