Enter Without So Much As Knocking

Enter Without So Much as Knocking is a poem written by Bruce Dawe. It can be found in the compilation, Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954 - 1992. The poem has been set as a high school text in Victoria.

Famous quotes containing the words enter and/or knocking:

    “I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life than on learning yesterday from Bob’s letter, that you had failed to enter Harvard University. And yet there is very little in it, if you will allow no feeling of discouragement to seize, and prey upon you.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)