dahlia_moon: (Happiness)
dahlia_moon ([personal profile] dahlia_moon) wrote2008-04-04 02:59 pm

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

From: Poems of Emily Dickinson selected by Helen Plotz

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