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Letter to Frances and Louise Norcross, late 1872.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

— Emily Dickinson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." in the context of "Letter to Frances and Louise Norcross, late 1872." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.