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Quotation from Poems: First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson

“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 (spoken by The poet)

Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Second Series, Life VI (Hope) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1891 text))

Portrait of Emily Dickinson

Hope is pictured as a small bird that keeps singing in the gale and never asks a crumb in return.

Citation: "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, Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Second Series, Life VI (Hope) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1891 text)). (id poems-of-emily-dickinson-q6)

Virtues: Hope

Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia), Unknown author, Public domain.

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