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Quotation from Poems: First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson
“There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away,”
Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Life XVI (A Book) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1896 text))
A book is a ship and a page of poetry a team of horses; even the poorest may travel without toll.
Citation: "There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away," — Emily Dickinson, Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Life XVI (A Book) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1896 text)). (id poems-of-emily-dickinson-q7)
Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia), Unknown author, Public domain.
