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Food Poetry: Fame is a Fickle Food, by Emily Dickinson

Published by Jonell Galloway + Sunday, February 17, 2013 Permalink 0

Fame is a Fickle Food

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food

Upon a shifting plate

Whose table once a

Guest but not

The second time is set

Whose crumbs the crows inspect

And with ironic caw

Flap past it to the

Farmer’s corn

Men eat of it and die

Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and died in 1886. The Poetry Foundation describes her as “A poet who took definition as her province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints.” Read more of Emily Dickinson’s biography on Poetry Foundation.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 9, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Permalink 0

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by Simón de Swaan

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.–Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, historian, philosopher and life-long abolitionist. The author of the book Walden (1854), where he details his experiences living in a cabin for two years near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, on land owned by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is a chronicle of the experience as well as part social experiment and spiritual discovery.