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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