[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

With Dickinson, her poetry is her life. One doesn't need a second-hand opinion.

"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!"

To keep on topic, there are some fascinating problems surrounding the editing of her work.

In the book I have it says that she wrote a lot of her poetry on the back of recipes etc as she went about her daily tasks -seems she was a keen cook.

It's good to be a nobody!

This one i also like:

"A word is dead when it is said,
Some say,
I say it just begins to live
That day."