Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunte…

Emily Dickinson
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. ✨ Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet, George Braziller
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