One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The …

Emily Dickinson
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. ✨ c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).
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