Emily Dickinson, Experience is the Angled Road (910)
From the poem:
Experience is the Angled RoadFrom the commentary:
Preferred against the Mind
By – Paradox – the Mind itself -
Presuming it to lead
“Experience is the Angled Road,” but “the” may be conditional. One could say the Mind is an angled road: we approach things from a perspective; our reasoning takes twists and turns even with one object in mind.