“It is the speck that makes the cloud that wrecks the vessel, children, yet no one fears a speck.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 490.
category: cloud, danger, fear, speck, storm, vessel
medium: letter
notes: letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, Dickinson's first cousins, early October 1871
vessel