Emily Dickinson Quote

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.


Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts (ed. Belknap Press, 1955)


To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.