Hope is a strange invention --
Hope is a strange invention -- A Patent of the Heart -- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out --
Of this electric Adjunct Not anything is known But its unique momentum Embellish all we own --
Emily Dickinson
Hope is a strange invention -- A Patent of the Heart -- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out --
Of this electric Adjunct Not anything is known But its unique momentum Embellish all we own --
Emily Dickinson treats hope not as a warm feeling but as a curious gadget — an invention patented deep in the heart, always running and somehow never burning out.
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