I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson's short poem in which the speaker, a nobody, welcomes another nobody and mocks the dreariness of being somebody.

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 frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!

Famous lines

• I’m nobody! Who are you?
  Are you nobody, too?

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  • Fame

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

  In context

  • Fame