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

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“And the sad act like lepers
They stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warning
To tell of their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.”

James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

“This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

“I quite like shutting the door, putting the answering machine on and sitting at the piano for six or seven hours.”

Joanna MacGregor (1959) British musician

“Some doors slammed in your face need to be glued and nailed shut so they can never be reopened.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“He that holds fast the golden mean, 22
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.”

William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist