Closets Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

“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

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

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

— Jim Morrison

It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an…

— Robert Bringhurst

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

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czeslaw Milosz

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

— Seamus Heaney

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander