Named source · c. 1863

Poem 690 Quotes by Emily Dickinson: Context & Meanings

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“Forever — is composed of Nows —”

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The future and the infinite are made from successive present moments, giving ordinary time a larger philosophical significance.

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Poem 690; Dickinson builds the abstract idea of eternity from individual present moments.