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Your thoughts don’t have words every day

Emily Dickinson

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MLA (Modern Language Association) Format:

Dickinson, Emily. “Your thoughts don’t have words every day.” Poetry X. Ed. Jough Dempsey. 25 Aug 2004. 07 Oct. 2008 <http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/3696/>.


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