狄金森名作。诗人宁愿做无人知晓的 Nobody,也不愿做万众瞩目的 Somebody。做名人如青蛙,终日在泥沼里向人报自己的名字。安于无名的欢喜,藏在短短八行里。

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!