Pain - has an Element of Blank. It cannot recollect. When it begun - or if there werea time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain. Its Past - enlightened to perceive. New Periods - of Pain.
Emily DickinsonAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 10, 1830
- Died: May 15, 1886
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