I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And … - Emily Dickinson

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I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.

Emily Dickinson

death life hurt choice grief

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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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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die. - Emily Dickinson

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