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 · 1830–1886What this quote means
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.
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 wisdom — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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