We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone els… - Emily Dickinson

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We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls, — I speculate no more.

Death is like the insect
Menacing the tree,
Competent to kill it,
But decoyed may be.

Bait it with the balsam,
Seek it with the knife,
Baffle, if it cost you
Everything in life.

Then, if it have burrowed
Out of reach of skill,
Ring the tree and leave it, — ’Tis the vermin’s will.

I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.

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