“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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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.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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“A Word is Dead
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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