If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
Source:Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (June 7, 1862); in The Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed. Belknap Press, 1958), Volume II, Letter 265, Page 408
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