Quotation by Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 1263, Harvard variorum edition (1955). There is no Frigate Like a Book (written c. 1873, published 1894).
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