About Emily Dickinson

American poet known for short, inventive lyric poems. (1830-1886)

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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.Hope is the thing with feathers (c. 1861)
• To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.Letter to T. W. Higginson (1872)
• We turn not older with years, but newer every day.Letter to Louise Norcross (1872)

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