Emily Dickinson Quote of the Week

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops -at all-

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

Born to an Amherst Massachusetts family with deep Puritan roots, Dickinson was better known in her lifetime as a gardener and a baker than as a poet. Famously reclusive, she spent decades brooding on the mysteries of life and death, and became more and more preoccupied with the latter. A few of her poems were published in The Atlantic Monthly, but the vast majority of the more than 1,800 she wrote were not known to the public until after her death. A complete collection did not appear until the 1950’s.

Greg Bover