Doors Quote by Andrea Gibson

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

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

— Basith

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

— Michael Ondaatje

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is…

— Margaret Atwood

“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

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

— Stephen Dobyns

“Those letters under the door A new life The war at a distance and my drinking glass that smokes A brightness crowns the universe…

— Paul Dermée

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I am only writing this now because I have grown so weary of doors without handles and windows looking nowhere”

— Tobias Wade

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

— Carl Sandburg

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

— Daniil Kharms

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

— Jim Morrison