Dr Iain McGilchrist | Daily Poetry Readings #321: The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Emily Dickinson | Iain McGilchrist @DrIainMcGilchrist | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Part 321 of a daily series of readings of his favourite poetry by Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary. Today's poem is The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Emily Dickinson.

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~ The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Emily Dickinson ~

The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more —

Unmoved — she notes the Chariots — pausing —
At her low Gate —
Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling
Upon her Mat —

I've known her — from an ample nation —
Choose One —
Then — close the Valves of her attention —
Like Stone —