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feathersThat QUOTES

1 " Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me. "

― Emily Dickinson , The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

2 " It was as if someone had left
the bird there
as a kind of telegram
of feathers, oily feathers
that looked like they’d struggled,
shuttered a little before letting go
into flight
forever. "

― Kristen Henderson , Drum Machine