“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”
"Anthem"
The Future (1992)
Variant: There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Source: Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Context: Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
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