Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East- to know
who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did
not build them- who were above such trifling. -Henry David Thoreau,
naturalist and author (1817-1862)
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one's name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Funny that HDT and ED were contemporaries. Imagine them sipping sherry or a good oolong tea together in Amherst or Concord.