To flee from memory
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise Would scan the cowering Van Of men escaping From the mind of man
Emily Dickinson
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise Would scan the cowering Van Of men escaping From the mind of man
Emily Dickinson imagines what would happen if people could simply grow wings and escape their own recollections. She suggests that almost everyone would take flight, weary of being weighed down by the past.
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