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Quotation by Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 1212, Harvard variorum edition (1955). A Word Is Dead (written c. 1872, published 1894).
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