Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but...
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.