To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
ED Emily DickinsonPoet · 1830–1886この名言の意味
Keep the soul slightly open, Dickinson advises, so that wonder and joy can find their way in. Readiness — not striving — is what lets the extraordinary arrive.
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American poet whose compact, luminous verses on hope and the inner life were mostly published after her death.
This line is among the quotes by Emily Dickinson that readers return to on 知恵 — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.