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“The sky was peach and gold, a teacup of a morning, just enough clouds so as not to mock us.”

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source: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008), 100.

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“It is the speck that makes the cloud that wrecks the vessel, children, yet no one fears a speck.”

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source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 490.

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medium: letter

notes: letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, Dickinson's first cousins, early October 1871

“Any minute now I will make a knife out of a cloud.”

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source: “October,” in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 32–33.

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medium: poetry

“Saw the limb of a rainbow footing itself on the sea at a small apparent distance from the shore, a thing of itself—no substrate cloud or even mist visible—but the distance glimmered through it as through a thin semi-transparent hoop.”

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source: Anima Poetae: from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: William Heinemann, 1895), 97.

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medium: nonfiction

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