Wednesday, 30 April 2008

I'm nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson


I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.


How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!


- Great. She highlights that it is more favourable to remain away from the spotlight where people constantly are uttering who and what they are all day long - like frogs croaking in a swamp. She recognises the luxury there is in being a nobody.

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