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Zdroj: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Love, p. 172
Collected Poems (1993)
Zdroj: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
Quoted on the web sans source. Not in the complete Poems. A 2006 self-help book attributes it verbatim to Dave Sim (see below) sans source. A 2009 reprint of Poems: Second Series mentions it in the introduction sans source (thus probably taking it from the unsourced web quote). No earlier attributions found.
Compare to a quote sourced to Dave Sim: "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." (Cerebus #65, 1984)
Misattributed
The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology (1968)
Zdroj: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more”
303: The Soul selects her own Society --
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Zdroj: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Zdroj: Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems