"There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself- Finite infinity." - Emily Dickinson (1830-86)
(From BIANCHI, MARTHA DICKINSON, 1866-1943, & DICKINSON, EMILY, 1830-1886. (1914). The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime. Little, Brown, and Co., p28. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/dickinson/hound/hound.html.)