“No approximate words in a poem.”

“No approximate words in a poem.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Title: Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
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Quoted by Julia Alvarez in an interview, "By the Book: Julia Alvarez", The New York Times (April 11, 2019) online. A version of this article appeared in print on April 14, 2019, p. 6 of the Sunday Book Review

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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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