There is no Frigate like a Book

Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University, and a big fan of poetry.  Someday I’ll join him at the Dodge Poetry Festival.  A few years ago he sent me this Emily Dickinson poem:

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry –

This Travers may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll –

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human soul.


Tom Vander Ark

Tom Vander Ark is the CEO of Getting Smart. He has written or co-authored more than 50 books and papers including Getting Smart, Smart Cities, Smart Parents, Better Together, The Power of Place and Difference Making. He served as a public school superintendent and the first Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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