“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”

— Emily Dickinson , book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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American poet 1830–1886

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