The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads… - Christopher Morley

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

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Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 - 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Alternative Names: Christopher Darlington Morley

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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world — the brains of men.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. - Christopher Morley

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