I'm Nobody! Who are you? Quotes

Context

This line is from the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson isn't content to form an army of nobodies and keep to herself. No! She fires a volley of insults at Somebodies while she's at it, hoping to tear them down a bit from their lofty perches.

In the second and final stanza of this short poem, Dickinson declares, "How dreary – to be – Somebody! / How public – like a Frog – / To tell one's name – the livelong June – / To an admiring Bog!"

She is basically comparing popular people to frogs, ones who won't become princes no matter how many kisses they get. And she's saying that all they do is say the same thing over and over again, to people who are also saying the same thing again and again, and no one is actually listening to each other.

Based on this poem, we don't think Emily Dickinson would be a fan of Twitter at all.

Where you've heard it

You've heard this if you're talking smack about the cool kids with your crowd of nobodies.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

This quote is almost a little "lady doth protest too much." If it really is that dreary, do you even need to talk about it?