First, let’s start with poetry from Emily Dickinson:
The Poets light out Lamps –
Themselves – go out –
The Wicks them stimulate
If vital Light
Inhere as do the suns –
Each Age a Lens
Disseminating their
Circumference –
“(Dickinson) is doing what the best poets do, trying to think behind the words they’ve been given,
whether those words come from a newspaper, from an essay, from a hubbub on the
street, from a story told in church, or on their grandmother’s knee, from a
whisper in the ear from the muse, or from another poem.”
Next: Running for
Your Life: On Loving the Cold
