Hope for the sake of hope is not hope itself. Some people hope because they cannot bear the alternative. That can end up in ...

Without elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinson's poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death ...

“I’m proud of what the foundation has done over the years.” At the gala, Stewart quoted Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune ...