A quote of the day is a daily highlighted line of wisdom chosen to inspire, teach, or encourage reflection on life's deeper ...

Hope is the first word of three different poems by Emily Dickinson, the first of which famously continues, “is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul.” This Dickinson poem appears to date ...

“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. Hope begins the journey for each of us to become the person ...

Drew Calvert is a writer living in Southern California. “My friends are my estate,” Emily Dickinson wrote to Samuel Bowles in 1859, in a letter whose chief purpose was to thank him for a pamphlet.