Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne'er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need. Not one of all the purple HostWho took the Flag todayCan tell the definitionSo clear of victory As he defeated – dying –On whose forbidden earThe distant strains of triumphBurst agonized and clear! I’m Nobody! Who are you?Are you – Nobody – too?Then there’s a pair … Doorgaan met het lezen van Emily Dickinson: Poetry
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Self- Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ne te quaesiveris extra." "Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and a perfect man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk by us … Doorgaan met het lezen van Self- Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

