Doorway Pages

Famous quotes containing the words doorway and/or pages:

“A poem should be equal to:
Not true.

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)