“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
“Pass in, pass in, the angels say,
In to the upper doors;
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to Paradise
By the stairway of surprise.”
Merlin I http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/merlin_i.htm, st. 2 <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
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In to the upper doors;
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to Paradise…" by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
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