Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

—Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

Portrait of Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but...

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

—Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

—Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.

—Emily Dickinson

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

—Emily Dickinson

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While there's life, there's hope.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

—Benjamin Franklin

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

—Barack Obama

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

—Alexandre Dumas