Un mot est mort, quand il est dit

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

A word is dead

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER ITA

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live - that day.

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "A word", 195-? [sung text not yet checked]
by Gloria Coates (b. 1938), "A word is dead", from 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Logan Skelton , "A word is dead", 2008 [ soprano and piano ], from Dickinson Songs, Book 2: The Unknown Peninsula, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Una parola è morta", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 19

Un mot est mort, quand il est dit

Language: French (Français) after the English

Un mot est mort, quand il est dit
Certains disent --
Je dis qu'il commence juste à vivre
Ce jour-là.

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Translation of title "A word is dead" = "Un mot est mort"

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 19