“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.” 
― Anne Carson
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.” 
― Anne Carson
microcosm [mahy-kruh-koz-uh m] 
noun
1. a little world; 
2. human beings, humanity, society, or the like, viewed as an epitome or miniature of the world or universe.