Only darkness and stillness (Helen Keller)

  Once I knew only darkness and stillness.  My life was without past or future… But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

--Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

Image source:  Anne Sullivan finger spelling into Helen Keller’s hand, ca. 1893,

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