"There is no Frigate Like a Book" by Emily Dickinson

Written by Emily Dickinson (link to original poem here)

Context:

David Mitchell calls poets the "apex predators" of the literary world because, as he says, if they have one wrong word they have a dead poem. There is something so masterful about saying such a well-known idea in an innovative way in so few words. Dickinson would have clearly killed it on Twitter.

Poem:

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry –

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll –

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human Soul –

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