Water, is taught by thirst.
Water, is taught by thirst. Land -- by the Oceans passed. Transport -- by throe -- Peace -- by its battles told -- Love, by Memorial Mold -- Birds, by the Snow.
Emily Dickinson
Water, is taught by thirst. Land -- by the Oceans passed. Transport -- by throe -- Peace -- by its battles told -- Love, by Memorial Mold -- Birds, by the Snow.
In a handful of quick, pared-down lines, Emily Dickinson shows how we truly grasp the worth of things only through their absence or opposite. You don’t know water until you’ve been thirsty; land means something after endless ocean; ecstasy is shaped by the memory of pain.
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