Doors Quote by 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

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

— Michael Ondaatje

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

— Basith

I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

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

— Sylvia Plath

“If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson

“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security,…

— Gaston Bachelard

“It made me understand that we don't always get to decide what we let in and what we keep out. A door is just…

— Nanci Kincaid

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

— Rumi