I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

[elleng]

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

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!

[shenmue]

1. ...

[applegrove]

2. I've got to read more of her stuff. Thanks for that. She's got a kind of joy

in her words.

[elleng]

3. Yes, joy, but also sadness,

or maybe frankness, clear eyes translating the world into words.

[applegrove]

4. Clear as a bell.

[happyaccident]

5. She was a philosopher, could not live a life of illusion, a complex humor

That line "I'm Nobody!Who are you?Are you Nobody too?" has been in my head since I was a toddler. mom used to read us adult poetry at night instead of kids books.