Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die
Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die And are too seldom born --
Emily Dickinson
Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die And are too seldom born --
Emily Dickinson offers a wry, compact thought on fame in just two lines. She imagines Fame as a kind of parent, and the people who win it — its “Boys and Girls” — are figures who “never die,” granted a strange immortality through public memory.
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