“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”

Source: Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman181

American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Attendants, will you please close and lock the doors?”

George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor

“I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Source: Complete Poems

“People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.”

J. G. Ballard book Cocaine Nights

"Bobby Crawford"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.