Sunday, September 14, 2008

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
This is a little gem, and having come across it I just had to post it. I love the tone; at once bold, forthright, yet timid, shy, even confidential - "Don't tell!", "How dreary!" - it's beautiful. I have no idea whether it was purposely crafted or just spontaneous but it certainly looks like one burst of inspiration.

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