"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul."
Emily Dickinson
"I’m not an optimist. I’m a prisoner of hope."
Desmond Tutu
"So I’ve been hearing this phrase y’all got over here that I ain’t too crazy about. ‘It’s the hope that kills you.’ Y’all know that? I disagree, you know? I think it’s the lack of hope that comes and gets you. See, I believe in hope. I believe in belief.”
Ted Lasso, Season 1 Episode 10
"Sometimes hope is all I have."
Beki Hemingway
Caged up and shackled
To an unfledged
Emaciated creature
Unable to take flight.
Hollowed out words
with no tune to give them life,
Endlessly burbling
With no full stop in sight.
Emotional fingernails
Broken and bleeding
From their very roots
Through clinging on.
Slope shouldered resignation
Or caterwauling despair,
Would be less agonising
Than chronic hope deferred.
Selah
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