Autumn Quote by Alice Cary

“poems open doors; that don't even exist.”

— Basith

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

— Michael Ondaatje

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,…

— E.E. Cummings

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

— Sylvia Plath

“Who would have thought some doors only slammed shut temporarily; that when you turned to trudge away they could be flung open again, and…

— Alex Beecroft

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

“O shut the door! and when thou hast done so, Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!”

— William Shakespeare

“When you are old, at evening candle-lit beside the fire bending to your wool, read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ this praise…

— Pierre de Ronsard

“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect…

— Yuan Mei

“For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of…

— William Shakespeare

“I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning