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" 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! "

Emily Dickinson , Selected Poems


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Emily Dickinson quote : I'm Nobody! Who are you?<br />Are you – Nobody – too?<br />Then there's a pair of us!<br />Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!<br /><br />How dreary – to be – Somebody!<br />How public – like a Frog –<br />To tell one's name – the livelong June –<br />To an admiring Bog!