“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
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Charles Baudelaire 133
French poet 1821–1867Related quotes
Horace Mann
(1796–1859) American politician
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.
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(1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
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Carl Sandburg
(1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Tentative (First Model)" Definitions of Poetry" in Complete Poems (1950)
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 144.
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(1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 271).
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