"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
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19th-century poets from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 19th centuryPoets from Massachusetts
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Quoted on the web sans source. Not in any published edition of Dickinson's poems. Anthony Hernandez, The Enlightened Savage (2006) β a self-help book β attributes it verbatim to Dave Sim sans source. Compare a similar quote sourced to Sim in Cerebus no. 65 (1984): "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
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