Emily Dickinson

United States
10 Dec 1830 // 15 May 1886
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I'm Nobody

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, in 'Complete Poems'
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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