"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

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The theme of health is universal, yet Emily Dickinson manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on health often shapes our reality.

About Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized."

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