Ma Yansong Quotes

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

My door is open.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

Come and say G'day!

Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

Come and get them.

I see the White House as like a subway. You have to put coins in to open the gates.

Make it [the United States] the home of the skillful, the industrious, the fortunate, the happy, as well as the asylum of the distressed ... Let but this, our celebrated goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the people of the old world—tell them to come, and bid them welcome.

Every wall is a door.

I didn't have role models to look up to because there was no access to them.

Poverty will not be allowed to become a wall in the way of education.

If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.