Title: A Word is Dead - Everything2.com
Headings: A Word is Dead
A Word is Dead
Content: and " What is death? " When you speak, is the thought, the word, ending or beginning its life? Before the word is voiced or created, it can only affect one person. It provides no threat to anyone, it can create no change. An insult does not hurt until it is said. A compliment means nothing if not given. When you speak, you are putting yourself at risk, voicing a thought, allowing it to leave the realm of the mind. Emily Dickinson constantly did this throughout her life through her writing. Dickinson has often been considered austere and solitary. She never married, did not participate in local religious frenzies in Amherst, Massachusetts, and never traveled.