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Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

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I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the Shelf.

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 640, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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