Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne’er succeed.
- Source
- Poem, c. 1859 (published 1878)
- Written
- c. 1859
About this quotation
This is one of the very few Dickinson poems printed in her lifetime. It appeared anonymously in 1878 in an anthology called A Masque of Poets, and readers at first took it for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work.