“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
Collected Poems
From one of Dickinson's most famous poems (c. 1861), defining hope as a persistent, wordless, inner song that cannot be silenced.
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