Emily Dickinson Quote

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!


No. 288 [c. 1861] - "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!...

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!...

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!...

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!...