“Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.”

— Emily Dickinson · Life quote

Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me. — Emily Dickinson quote card
Poet · 1830 – 1886

American poet whose nearly 1,800 poems, mostly unpublished in her lifetime, made her a central figure of American literature.

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