If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever w…

Emily Dickinson
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ✨ Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ✨ Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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