(Original engl.: "To be alive, is power - // Existence - in itself - // Without a further function - // Omnipotence enough -" - The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Ralph William Franklin. Harvard University Press 1998. no. 876 p. 817 books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=GYuUA9gn1hUC&pg=PA817
Ähnlich: "I find ecstasy in living - the mere sense of living is joy enough." - am 16. August 1870 im Gespräch mit Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Emily Dickinson's Letters. The Atlantic Monthly, October 1891 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1891/10/emily-dickinsons-letters/306524/, p. 453 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=GikwAQAAMAAJ&q=ecstacy (dort "ecstacy"))
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