Emily Dickinson -- five poems for researchers.
Born today in 1830.
A short 🧵
Born today in 1830.
A short 🧵
E Dickinson on growth mindset/imposter syndrome
We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies—
The Heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the Cubits warp
For fear to be a King—
We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies—
The Heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the Cubits warp
For fear to be a King—
Emily Dickinson to junior researchers everywhere:
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!
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 on changing reference points:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Emily Dickinson on publishing (Recall 6 poems pub in her lifetime!):
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer's Corn–
Men eat of it and die.
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer's Corn–
Men eat of it and die.
Emily Dickinson on why we do research:
Love – is anterior to Life –
Posterior – to Death –
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth –
Love – is anterior to Life –
Posterior – to Death –
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth –
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