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" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

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" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "

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