thing with feathers
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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,” John Owen Lowe shared in an Instagram Stories post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Maybe Emily Dickinson was right, I thought to myself, when she called hope the thing with feathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hope may be the thing with feathers, but this bunch of feathers is hopeless.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
Now it’s empathy that’s the thing with feathers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019
I don’t want to pick one of the ones everyone knows, like “I’m Nobody” or the one about hope being a thing with feathers.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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