“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

“Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.”

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers —
That perches in the soul —
And sings the tune without the words —
And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard —
And sore must be the storm —
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm — ”

“Of three things be wary-
of a feather on a cat,
The shepherd eating mutton,
And a guardsman that is fat.”

“The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.”

“Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.”

“Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.”

“Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.”

“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”