Why Poets Are Awesome

And yet, her cold, dead eyes haunt me.Consider a "simple" Dickinson poem:
Because I could not stop for Death -He kindly stopped for me -The carriage held but just Ourselves -And Immortality.
In just the very first line, Dickinson conveys the sentiment of most mortals. We have much to do, much we would wish to accomplish, much and more that we'd like to see and experience. Some of us, toward the end, might welcome Death (pe...