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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Romantic, Summer
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.201, Harvard University Press

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Sympathy, Death
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Life, Wedding
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Friendship, Family
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Cute, Good Morning
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.872, Harvard University Press

Till I loved I never lived.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Romantic, Romance
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.329, Harvard University Press

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Relationship, Reading
Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes (2011). “Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Faber & Faber

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Hope, Bird
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2435, Delphi Classics

For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Romantic, Romance
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Life, Arguing
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, Harvard University Press

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Fashion, Antiques
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1160, Delphi Classics

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Heaven, Earth
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.244, Harvard University Press

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Women, Men
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.628, Harvard University Press

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Heart, Different
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Air, Sea
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.695, Harvard University Press

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

Emily Dickinson
Love, Sage, Done
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.568, Harvard University Press

Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Names, Alive
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.611, Harvard University Press

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