Emily Dickinson: "There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons—That..."

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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 Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.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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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

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

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

—Emily Dickinson

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

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

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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay—Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

—Charles Kingsley

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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

—Albert Camus

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The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

—Carl Reiner

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11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons—That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes—

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