"A word is dead when it is said…" — Emily Dickinson

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Un mot est mort quand il est dit, disent certains je dis qu'il commence à vivre ce jour-là

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“After great pain, a formal feeling comes ”

Emily Dickinson

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry ”

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