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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

By ExLibris · published September 12, 2026 · Still · 8 slides, at your own pace · Edited Sep 21

She wrote nearly 1,800 poems. Fewer than a dozen were published while she was alive.

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." Emily Dickinson wrote that in 1861, but almost no one read it while she was alive.

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