Dickinson Plaque on East 41st Street, NYC, Poem 1212


(Poem # J-1212 FR-278, pub. 1894, Letters)

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

Illustration: Library Walk: East 41st Street, NYC
A Celebration of the World's Great Literature,
The New York Public Library. Sculptor: Gregg Lefevre, 1998

Emily Dickinson: Early Feminist Essays