Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
ED Emily DickinsonPoet · 1830–1886What this quote means
The very fact that moments do not return is what gives them their sweetness. Impermanence, seen gently, is a reason to savor rather than to grieve.
Context
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 gratitude — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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