11.11.2009

Emily Dickinson - Poem 816

A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
Who till they died, did not alive become --
Who had they lived, had died but when
They died, Vitality begun.

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Blogger Michael Cooper said...

DZ--I usually find her overly abstract in a particularly irritating New Englandish kind of way, but this little gem has made a convert out of me. Emily Dickenson for Theologian of the Cross Poet Laureate, anyone?

November 11, 2009 at 4:16 PM  
Blogger DZ said...

just by way of a footnote (ht JD):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwJ_Iyvilk

November 12, 2009 at 2:39 PM  

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