opening quotes

'No better opening anywhere,'said my aunt,'for a man who conducts himself well, and is industrious.'

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^50  Of Mr Micawber's prospects in  Australia. David Copperfield, ch.52.

Politics is just like show business†a hell of an opening, you coast for a while, you have a hell of a closing.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan
  In the NewYorkTimes, 23 Apr.

The point is the seeingthe grace beyond recognition, the ways of the bird rising, unnamed, unknown, beyond the range of language, beyond its noun. Eyes open on growing, flying, happening, and go on opening. Manifold, the world dawns on unrecognizing, realizing eyes. Amazement is the thing. Not love, but the astonishment of loving.

- Alastair Reid
  Weathering,'Growing, Flying, Happening'.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

- Carl Sandburg
  'Poetry Considered', in the Atlantic Monthly, Mar.