Forever—is composed of Nows—
- Source
- Poem, c. 1863
- Written
- c. 1863
About this quotation
The line opens a short poem that goes on to say eternity is not a different kind of time, only time without limit. Dickinson left most of her poems unpublished and untitled, so poems are identified by their first lines; this one is dated by handwriting to about 1863.