and Mozart," [Helen] Noonan says [of Emily Dickinson]. "If you choose words carefully they resonate forever. That is why the arts are so potentially valuable because they can connect a society to infinity."As evidence, she points to a short poem, Spoken: "A word is dead/When it is said,/Some say./I say it just/Begins to live/That day."
from The Sydney Morning Herald: Poet's evocative words brought to life again as soprano performs an encore
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