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Emily Dickinson quotes

1830–1886. American poet; almost all her poems were published after her death. 5 quotes.

Poems (1890)

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.

First Series, Life, poem 1Source text

The soul selects her own society

First Series, Life, poem 13Source text

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me

First Series, Time and Eternity, poem 27Source text

I’m nobody! Who are you?

Second Series, Life, poem 1Source text

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul

Second Series, Life, poem 6Source text