“Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
The quote "A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day." is famous quote by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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