thing with feathers
Example Sentences
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Hope may be the thing with feathers, but this bunch of feathers is hopeless.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
But in this sorest storm, in this chillest land, there’s hope, the thing with feathers.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021
Now it’s empathy that’s the thing with feathers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019
If hope is the thing with feathers, as poet Emily Dickinson said, then the Mariners haven’t been totally plucked bald after 10 games.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2017
Every time she says that, I nod and remember the words from one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers I That perches in the soul.”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
