"Faith" by Emily Dickinson
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
So yeah...a very short one...but she has hundreds of poems, so choosing is difficult...and I always liked it for just how short and sweet and TRUE it is...it reminds me of a House line, actually--
"You can claim to have all the faith you want, but I KNOW you look both ways when crossing the street."
A friend of mine actually ran across a book suggesting Dickinson's poetry is somewhat Buddhist in tone...? What does everyone think of that? She's definitely in touch with nature and all that, and Transcendentalism was popular in her day among the big name American authors we think of--Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman...Poe has sort of a Gothic take on it--and so on.
So, thoughts? And suggestions, as always, for next time (when we'll do someone from the British Isles and probably an except from a book, to shake things up a bit and keep this from just being all-poetry and growing stale, as great as poetry is...)
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George Brett Lawrie
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