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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

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A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.

Source: In Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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