Poetry Friday: Success is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson

Yes, Emily does say it well...and isn't it ironic that she is wildly "successful" now?

Wow, this poem so coincidentally sums up exactly what I was thinking about before I got on here, it's scary.

You think this poem is sad? I always thought... well, it's kind of hopeful. At least to those of us who have not been wildly successful, yet. My interpretation is more that if we succeed too early, and too easily, then you never really succeed at all. Success, in the real sense of being 'sweet... nectar' is something that comes only at the end of a long, powerful failure.

Jason Gignac
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