883 <br /> <br />The Poets light but Lamps— <br />Themselves—go out— <br />The Wicks they stimulate— <br />If vital Light <br /> <br />Inhere as do the Suns— <br />Each Age a Lens <br />Disseminating their <br />Circumference—<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poets-light-but-lamps/
